Javukha

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| name = Javukha

| title = Ruler of the Alchon Huns

| image = Huns silver coin copying Gupta horse type 5th century CE.jpg

| caption = Silver coin of Javukha, copying a Gupta horse type coinage. Obverse: King on horse with sun symbol, Brahmi legend around shahi javu-kha 14px21px14px14px14px, Alchon tamgha 18px to the left."Then we find coins inscribed Shahi Javukha or Shahi Javuvla. The attribution of these coins to Toramana is doubtful. His coins are only in silver and copper: no gold coins of his time have so far been found." in {{cite book |last1=Litvinskii |first1=Boris Anatolevich |last2=Zhang |first2=Guanda |last3=Samghabadi |first3=R. Shabani |title=The Crossroads of Civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750 |date=1996 |publisher=Unesco |isbn=9789231032110 |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTNKGnTOangC |language=en}} The reverse normally shows a fire altar, without attendants, a Sasanian coinage symbolism. 5th century CE.

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| reign = 5th century CE

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{{Alchon Huns}}

Javukha (Brahmi: 14px14px14px π‘€šπ‘€―π‘€Όπ‘€” Ja-vu-kha, Bactrian: Zabocho, or Zabokho) was the third known king of the Alchon Huns, in the 5th century CE. He is described as such in the Talagan copper scroll inscription, where he is also said to be Maharaja ("Great King"), and the "son of Sadavikha".{{cite book |last1=Rezakhani |first1=Khodadad |title=ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity |date=2017 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9781474400305 |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjRWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 |language=en}} In the scroll he also appears to be rather contemporary with Toramana.

Coin types

Javukha issued coins in the Bactrian script as well as in the Brahmi, suggesting a regnal claim to areas both north and south of the Hindu Kush, from Bactria to Northern Pakistan.{{cite book |last1=Rezakhani |first1=Khodadad |title=ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity |date=2017 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9781474400305 |pages=118–119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjRWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 |language=en}}

He issued some silver coins in which he is shown riding a horse, copying a Gupta horse type coinage which appears on the coins of Chandragupta II (r. 380-413 CE) or Kumaragupta I (r. 415-455 CE).

File:Javukha_of_the_Alchon_Huns_Mid-late_5th_century.jpg|Coin of Javukha with portrait, Brahmi legend to right shahi javu-kha 14px21px14px14px14px. The reverse normally shows a fire altar, flanked by armed attendants, a Sasanian coinage symbolism.

File:Alchon Huns. Javukha Gandhara mint 5th century CE.jpg|Scyphate gold coin of Javukha in Kushan style, with Bactrian legend. Reverse: siva standing facing, holding diadem and trident. Gandhara mint. 5th century CE

File:Javukha. Mid-late 5th century Gandhara mint.jpg|Coin of Javukha on horse. Sasanian-style fire altar with attendants on the reverse.

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| before = Khingila

| title = Tegin of the Alchon Huns

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| after = Mehama

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