Kipunada
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| caption = Coin of Kipunada. Circa 335-350 CE.
Obverse: Kipunada standing left, sacrificing over altar. To the right, name vertically in Brahmi script in monogrammic form: Ki-pu-ṇa 16px12px14px.
Under the ruler's arm: Bacharnatha 12px12px12px12px12px.
Reverse: Ardoxsho enthroned facing, holding investiture garland and cornucopia.[https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=292101 CNG Coins]
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| coronation = 335 CE
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| birth_date = 297 CE
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{{Kushan rulers}}
Kipunada (Brahmi script: 10px10px10px14px Ki-pu-ṇa-dha), also Kipanadha, was probably the last ruler of the Kushan Empire around 335-350 CE. He is known for his gold coinage.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HS6kktipb8C&pg=PA15|title=Heritage World Coin Auctions Long Beach Signature Auction Catalog #378|publisher=Ivy Press |page=15|isbn=978-1-932899-79-5|date=May 2005}} He succeeded Shaka I. Kipunada was probably only a local ruler in the area stretching from Waisa to Taxila, in northwestern Punjab, and he may have been a subject of Gupta Emperor Samudragupta.{{cite book |last1=Rezakhani |first1=Khodadad |title=From the Kushans to the Western Turks |date=2017 |page=203 |url=https://www.academia.edu/32671225 |language=en}}
Gupta and Kidarite successors
The coins of Kipunada in Central and Western Punjab were followed by peculiar coins minted locally in Punjab, with the name "Samudra" on them (Gupta script:13px11px12px), presumably connected to the Gupta Empire ruler Samudragupta. Soon after this, coinage was issued in Punjab by Kidarite Hun rulers known as Kirada, Peroz and then the famous Kidara, who occupied the territory formerly held by the Kushans.{{cite journal |last1=Cribb |first1=Joe |title=The Kidarites, the numismatic evidence.pdf |journal=Coins, Art and Chronology II, Edited by M. Alram et Al. |url=https://www.academia.edu/38112559 |language=en|page=101}}"In the Punjab the stylistic progression of the gold series from Kushan to Kidarite is clear: imitation staters were issued first in the name of Samudragupta, then by Kirada, 'Peroz' and finally Kidara" in {{cite book |last1=Errington |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Curtis |first2=Vesta Sarkhosh |title=From Persepolis to the Punjab: Exploring Ancient Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan |date=2007 |publisher=British Museum Press |isbn=978-0-7141-1165-0 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2cuAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Rezakhani |first1=Khodadad |title=ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity |date=2017 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-0030-5 |page=85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjRWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 |language=en}}
File:Samudra Gandhara coin, Punjabi mint Circa CE 350-375.jpg|Local coin minted in the Punjab area with the name "Samudra" (13px11px12px Sa-mu-dra, under the king's left arm), presumably Samudragupta, immediately followed those of Kipunada.
File:HUNNIC TRIBES, Kidarites Kirada Circa 340-345.jpg|The next coins were those of Kidarite Hun kings, starting with Kirada (14px14px14px Ki-ra-da under the king's left arm), who ruled circa 350 CE.
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Kidarites
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040803193854/http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/kushan/kushan6.html Coins of late Kushan emperors]
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Category:4th-century Indian monarchs
Category:Vassal rulers of the Gupta Empire
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