Bo Fuzhun
Majestic Sovereign
Possible coinage of Bo Fuzhun.[1]
Turk Shahi King
Reign745-? CE
PredecessorFromo Kesaro
SuccessorPossibly Khingal
FatherFromo Kesaro

Bo Fuzhun, also Bofuzhun (Chinese language: 勃匐準 Bo-fu-zhun, ruled from 745 CE per Chinese sources) was a ruler of the Turk Shahis. He is only known in name from Chinese imperial accounts and possibly numismatic sources. The identification of his coinage remains conjectural.

Chinese accounts

Bo Fuzhun appears in the Chinese annals of the Old Book of Tang, which record many dynastic events and ethnological information about the polities of Central and Southern Asia in the 6th-8th century, which were nominally under Chinese suzerainty and part of the Protectorate General to Pacify the West. According to the Old Book of Tang, in 745 CE, Fromo Kesaro, king of the Turk Shahis, sent a request to the Chinese court in order to abdicate in favour of his son Bo Fuzun (勃匐準). These events are again recorded in the Chinese annals Jiu Tangshu and Tang Huiyao.[2]

天寶四年，又冊其子勃匐準為襲罽賓及烏萇國王，仍授左驍衛將軍
In the 4th year of the Tianbao reign [745 CE][lower-alpha 1] another imperial edict was issued to make his [ie Fromo Kesaro's] son Bo Fuzun succeed him on the throne as the King of Jibin and Uddiyana. He was conferred the title of "General of Left Stalwart Guard".

— Old Book of Tang, Book 198.[3][4]

Coinage

According to Kuwayama [1] the coinage of Bo Fuzhun corresponds to the late Turk Shahi coinage marked "Śrī Vāsudeva", and designed in the style of the coinage of the Sasanian Emperor Khosrow II.[1] These coins follow the design of the coin of Khosrow II (ruled 590-628) issued in his regnal years 26,27,36 and 37.[1] "Vāsudeva" would be a regnal name that he adopted as he obtained the throne of Uddiyana (烏萇國).[1]

Relation with Khingal

There is a possibility that the Khingal of the Arabs, a ruler of the Turk Shahis, is identical with the Bo Fuzhun.[5][6][7][8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Kuwayama 1993s, p. 388, Coin E.211-E.216.
  2. ↑ Kuwayama, S. (2002). Across the Hindukush of the First Millennium: a collection of papers (PDF). INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES KYOTO UNIVERSITY. p. 259.
  3. ↑ Balogh, Dániel (12 March 2020). Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History. Barkhuis. p. 104. ISBN 978-94-93194-01-4. Chinese original: 天寶四年，又冊其子勃匐準為襲罽賓及烏萇國王，仍授左驍衛將軍。
  4. ↑ Kuwayama, S. (2002). Across the Hindukush of the First Millennium: a collection of papers (PDF). INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES KYOTO UNIVERSITY. p. 259.
  5. ↑ Kuwayama, Shoshin (1999). "Historical Notes on Kapisi and Kabul in the Sixth-Eighth Centuries" (PDF). ZINBUN. 34: 44.
  6. ↑ "The Countenance of the other (The Coins of the Huns and Western Turks in Central Asia and India) 2012-2013 exhibit: 15. The Rutbils of Zabulistan and the "Emperor of Rome"". Pro.geo.univie.ac.at. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  7. ↑ Inaba, Minoru. "From Kesar the Kābulšāh and Central Asia". Academia. p. 446.
  8. ↑ 天寶四年,又冊其子勃匐準為襲罽賓及烏萇國王,仍授左驍衞將軍。"Kesar's son Bo Fuzhun succeed him on the throne as the king of Jibin and Wuchang. He was conferred the title General of the Left Stalwart Guard" in Balogh, Dániel (12 March 2020). Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History. Barkhuis. p. 104. ISBN 978-94-93194-01-4.
  9. ↑ Rezakhani, Khodadad (15 March 2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-4744-0031-2.

Notes

  1. ↑ Tianbao (天寶, 742–756), era name used by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang

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