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Asii, also written Asioi, and probably also Asiani, were one of the nomadic tribes, mentioned in Roman and Greek accounts who are said to have been responsible for the downfall of the state of Bactria circa 140 BCE. These tribes are usually identified as Scythian or Saka peoples.

The texts relating to them are very brief and, sadly, there is little definitely known about them. Many theories have been proposed by historians and other scholars as to their origins, relationships, language, culture, etc., but so far no consensus has emerged.

The three main surviving classical sources are those of Strabo, Trogus and Justin. Both Trogus' Historiae Philippicae (as preserved in Justin) and Strabo's Geography exist in a number of ancient manuscripts containing significant textual variations which have led to widely varying translations and interpretations.

Trogus (Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus; fl. 1st century BCE) wrote his Historiae Philppicae in Latin. Unfortunately, only his 'Prologues,' which are rather like chapter headings, have survived intact. He mentions only three tribes involved in the conquest of Bactria: the Asiani, Sacaraucae and the Tochari, of whom the Sacaraucae were said to have been destroyed. The Asiani are reported as becoming, at some point, rulers over the Tochari, though this text is sometimes translated as the “Asian kings of the Tochari.”

Marcus Junianus Justinus, (usually referred to simply as Justin in English), a late 2nd or 3rd century Roman historian, wrote an "epitome" or condensation of Trogus' history. The last datable event recorded by Justin is the recovery of the Roman standards captured by the Parthians in 20 BCE, although Trogus’ original history may have dealt with events into the first decade of the 1st century CE.

Strabo (Στράβων; 64/63 BCE – 24 CE), who wrote in Greek (and completed his Geography in 23 CE), around the time of Trogus. He mentions what appear to be four tribes (though, in reality, may be only three - see below): the Asioi (commonly accepted as the equivalent of the Latin Asii), the Pasianoi, the Tacharoi (or Tokharoi) and the Sakaraukai.

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Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus' evidence

Trogus' accounts are very brief:

Trogus’ Prologue, Book 41:

"In Bactrianis autem rebus ut a Diodoto rege constitutum imperium est: deinde quo regnante Scythicae gentes, Saraucae et Asiani, Bactra occupavere et Sogdianos." From Trogus' Prologue, Book 411
"The report on the history of the Baktrians first speaks of king Diodotos by whom this realm was founded. Next, under which Scythian tribes' rulers – namely the Saraucae and the Asiani – Baktra and the country of the Sogdians was occupied. Next, under which [Greek] ruler Scythian tribes, namely the Saraucae and Asiani, occupied Bactria and the land of the Sogdians." English version of Seel's German translation.2

Trogus' Prologue, Book 42:

"Additae his res Scythicae. Reges Tocharorum Asiani interitusque Saraucarum."

This passage has been translated into English as:

"There is also a section on Scythian history, then one on the Asian kings of the Tochari, and on the demise of the Saraucae." 3

It appears that the Tochari and Sacaraucae of Trogus must be identical with the Tokharoi and Sakaraukai (sometimes wrongly given as 'Sakarauloi' – as in the Loeb edition) of Strabo.

Strabo’s evidence

The earliest known Greek text of the key passage from Strabo's Geography 11.8.2 is that of the 'Vatican palimpsest' (Vat. Gr. 2306) dated to the 5th century. It reads

"ΜΑΛΕС|ΜΑΛΙСΤΑ ΔΕΓΝωРІΜОΙΓΕΓО ΝΑСΙΝΤωΝΝОΜΑ ΔωΝОІΤОΥСΕΛΛΗ ΝΑСΑΦΕΛОΜΕΝОΙ TΗΝΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΗ AСІОІΚΑΙΠΑСІΑΝОІ ΚΑІΤΑΧΑΡОІΚΑІСΑ ΚΑΡΑΥΚΑІОΡΜΗΘΕ ΤΕСΑΠОΤΗСΠΕΡΑІ ΑСΤОΥΤΙAΞΑΡΤОΥ ΤΗСΚΑΤΑСΑΚΑСΚΑΙ CОΓΔОΑΝОΥСΗΝ KΑΤΕΙΧОΝСΑΚΙ"

This translates literally as:

"But the best known of the nomads are those who took away Baktrianē from the Greeks; the Asioi and the Pasianoi, and the Tacharoi and the Sakaraukai, who originally came from the other side of the Iaxartou [River] that adjoins that of the Sakai and the Sogdoanou and was occupied by the Saki."

As early as the 18th century, J. F. Vaillant (Arsacidarum imperium, II, Paris 1725, p. 61) proposed that the phrase usually given as ΑΣΙΟI KAI ΠΑΣΙΑΝΟI . . . (= [The] Asioi and Pasianoi . . .), in Strabo 10.8.2, should be amended to ACΙΟΙ H ACΙΑΝΟ (= [The] Asioi or Asianoi . . .).

Vaillant had correctly noticed that Trogus (Prologues XLI) mentions the "Scythian" people of the Asiani, who must surely be identified with the Asioi of Strabo. This is definitely the reading of the earliest surviving copy of Strabo’s Geography, the "Vatican palimpsest" - see above.

"The history of this manuscript has only been understood since the studies consecrated to W. Aly. Copied in Byzantium about the end of the 5th century . . . .
All the later manuscripts with Π and all the direct quotations of medieval times derive from a single prototype of the "Geography" carrying the title of Γεωγραφικά." 4

The 'Vatican palimpsest' was completely written in capital italic Greek letters arranged in three rows with no spaces between the words.

Pliny the Elder's evidence

Pliny the Elder (23 CE–25 August 79 CE) wrote his famous Naturalis Historia makes only a very brief, though tantalising, mention of a people called the 'Asini':

". . . and the Asini, a people who dwell in three cities, their capital being Bucephala, which was founded around the tomb of the horse belonging to king Alexander, which bore that name. Above these peoples there are some mountain tribes, which lie at the foot of Caucasus, the Soseadæ and the Sondræ, and, after passing the Indus and going down its stream, the Samarabriæ, the Sambraceni, the Bisambritæ, the Orsi, the Anixeni, and the Taxilæ, with a famous city, which lies on a low but level plain, the general name of the district being Amenda: there are four nations here, the Peucolaitæ, the Arsagalitæ, the Geretæ, and the Assoï." 56
"Pliny mentions as neighbours of the Soseadae the people of the Asini, who are reigning in the city of Bucephela. From these three data; 1) the Tacoraei are neighbours of the Besadae/Sosaeadae; 2) the Asini are the neighbours of the Sosaeadae; 3) The Asiani are kings of the Thocari, it follows that the Asini of Pliny's text are identical with the Asiani, who are the kings of the Tocharians. This implies that—at least in the time of Pliny—the Kushāṇas were kings of the region between Jhelam and Indus and that Bucephala was one of their cities. It seems that Pliny availed himself of a recent description of this territory and that Ptolemy knew these data too."7

This town - Bucephalus/Bukephalus - has been identified with modern Jalāpur.8

Some of the many theories on the identification of the Asii

It is generally accepted that Trogus' Asiani were probably identical to the Asii of Strabo,9 perhaps leaving an extra tribe, the 'Pasiani' of Strabo, to account for.

Some scholars believe that the Asii and the Pasiani were one and the same tribe, with 'Pasiani' a simple mistake for 'Asiani' and just a different form of the name for the Asii. Others believe the 'Pasiani' were a separate tribe, with the Greek letter Π a scribal error for Η, in which case the beginning of the passage would read: "[the] Asii also (known as) the Asiani"; while others believe that 'Pasiani' is a mistaken form of 'Gasiani' (with the Greek letter Π a scribal error for Γ).101112

Here are references to a few other hypotheses and theories:

* Asii/Asio is equivalent to Sanskrit Aswa/Asva and Asvaka and refers to horses and "horse folks". James Tod and some other scholars following him think that the Greek term Asii/Asio is equivalent to Sanskrit Aswa/Asva and Asvaka and refers to 'horse' as well as the Scythic people connected with horse-culture.13 14 15 16. As for the Aswa or Asvaka people, they are generally believed to be a sub-section of the wider Kamboja group, 17, a wide-spread tribe of horsemen inhabiting both sides of the Hindukush mountains.

* The Asii/Asiani = the Yuezhi or Kushans? W. W. Tarn first thought that the Asii (adjectival form, "Asiani") were probably one part of the Yuezhi, the other being the Tochari. However, he later expressed doubts as to this position.1819.

* The Asii/Asiani may simply be a transcription of the Isse[dones] of Herodotus. Taishan Yu proposes that Asii were "probably" the dominant tribe of the confederacy of four tribes "from the time that they had settled in the valleys of the Ili and Chu" who later invaded Sogdiana and Bactria. "This would account for their being called collectively "Issedones" by Herodotus." He also states that the "Issedon Scythia and the Issedon Serica took their names from the Issedones."20 Yu believes that the Issedones must have migrated to the Ili and Chu valleys, "at the latest towards the end of the 7th century B.C."2122

* The Asii/Asiani are to be identified with the Alans and Asses (i.e. a western Central Asian population, rather than the Yuezhi-Tochari of eastern Bactria) - from whom the modern Ossets (Ossetians) derive their name.

Main article: Alans
This theory identifies "the Asii with the later Alans and Ases (from whom the modern Ossets derive their name), that is a western Central Asian population, rather that the Yuezhi-Tochari of Eastern Bactria. . . . With the new identification of the Asii-Asiani, the Prologues seem instead to concern two later distinct periods already disconnected from the time of Eucratides. Moreover, from a geographical point of view, they describe events not related to the eastern, but to the western border of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom, that is a region which was in close contact with Parthia. Therefore, the ethnonym of the Asii-Asiani should be transferred westwards, that is to a different historical context (the Kangju area)."2324

* The Asiani can be identified with the Kushans.

Main article: Kushans
"One of the most important sources of information on nomad migration in Central Asia is Justin's Prologue to Pompeius Trogus (prologue to book XLII), which states that 'the Asiani are kings of the Tochari and destroyed the Scaraucae' (Reges Tocharorum Asiani interiusque Sakaraucarum). It is possible to conclude from this extract that the Asiani and the Tochari were closely related tribes. What is more, it indicates that the 'Asiani' dominated the 'Tochari' (Reges Tocharorum Asiani). We can identify the 'Asiani' with the 'Kushans' (von Gutschmidt 1888; Haloun 1937; Bachhofer 1941; Daffina 1967), one of the leading tribes, which subsequently came to power and created a great empire. It is noteworthy that Justin says that the Tochari were ruled by the Asiani, while the Chinese sources identify them as the largest of the five Yuezhi principalities."25

* The Asii were probably one of three Scythian tribes, whereas the Tochari were probably not, and should be identified with the Yuezhi.26

Main article: Scythian

* The Asii were identical with the Paisani (Gaisani) and were, therefore, also the Yuezhi.27

* The Asiani are to be identified with the Wusun.

Main article: Wusun
"It has been suggested that the Wusun may also be identified in Western sources as their name, pronounced then *o-sən or *uo-suən, is not far removed from that of a people known as the Asiani who the writer Pompeius Trogus (1st century BC) informs us were a Scythian tribe."28

* The Yuezhi and the Wusun were originally two branches of the same people, the Yuezhi being the 'Moon clan'; while the Wusun were the 'Solar clan'.29

Asii are also believed to be Risikas/Arsikas of the Indian Literature

The Sabha Parava of Indian epic Mahabharata many sections of which are believed to relate to historical scenario around Christian era refers to the Bahlikas, Daradas, Kambojas, Dasyus, Lohas, Parama Kambojas 30, uttara (northern) Risikas 31 and the Parama Risikas 32. The latter four tribes, by implications, are placed north of Hindukush in Central Asia 33. Patanjali in his Mahabhasya refers to Arsikas 34 which are said to be same as Risikas. Kasika on Panini (IV.2.132) also mentions Arsikas and connects them with the Risikas 35. Sanskrit tribal name Risika has its adjective form as Arsika. The Prakrit form of Risika exist as Isi and Isika 36 37 (or Asi and Asika). The Grecians were acquainted both with the Sanskrit forms Risika/Arsika as well as with their Prakrit forms Isi/Isika. The Grecian Asii (Appolodorus) is believed to represent Prakrit Isi and the Plinian Arsi is believed to be equivalent to Sanskrit Arsika. Of the four Scythian tribes mentioned by Strabo viz.: Asii, Pasiani, Tochari and Sacarauli, their equivalents have also been found in the Indian literature/sources. Pliny the Elder (23–79), however knew about the Arsi People who may or may not be same as Asii of Apollodorus. As classical Asii/Asioi stands for Prakrit Isi/Isika or Sanskrit Risika 38 39 40 41 42 43 44, Plinian Arsi may also be derived from Sanskrit Arsika 45.

"We have seen above that the Grecians knew of Asiani and Arshi. There should be no difficulty now to acknowledge that the Prakrit Ishi-Ishika stands for the Grecian Asii and the Grecian Arshi stands for the Sanskrit form Arshika. Perhaps these were the constituents of the Yüeh-Chi (Yue-chis). The Uttara Rishikas could be equated to Ta Yüeh-Chi of the Chinese history." 46.
Or: "It is not difficult now to see that the Greek Asii is from Sanskrit Isi or Isi, and probably the Greek Arsi may be derived from Sanskrit Arsika" 47.

The tribal name Risika and Arsika of the Sanskrit texts are connected together in the Indian literature "Risikesu jatah Arsikah, Mahisakesu jatah Mahisakah"48 49 50.

J. L. Brockington also identifies the epic Risikas with Asii or Asioi of the classical writers: "...the Risikas, who are therefore by implication in Central Asia and possibly to be identified with Asioi referred to by Strabo (2.24)" 51.

The name Pasiani has never been explained satisfactorily. J. Marquart thinks that Pasiani is same as Asiani. Von Gutschmid thinks that Pasiani and other three names mentioned by Strabo attempt to render Yue-chi in Greek 52. W. W. Tarn, Moti Chandra and some other scholars think that, "As Asiani is the (Iranian) adjectival form of Asii, so Pasiani would be the similar adjectival form of, and would imply, a name *Pasii or *Pasi" 53 54 55.

As for the Pasiani, Moti Chandra further suggests that the Grecian form Pasii could well stand for Sanskrit name Parama-Risika 56 57.

B. M. Barua and I. N. Topa also write: "Asii/Asiani correspond to Chang Kien’s Yue-chi and Asiani and Pasiani are the Indo-Iranian forms of Indo-Aryan Asika-Risikas and the Parama Risikas" 58 59.

In the inscription on the pedestal of one Bodhisatta image, a women named Amoha is called Asi (Arsi). In the alms house inscriptions of Huvishaka are mentioned the Sakareya and Prachini people respectively. Pasii or Pasiani are seen to be equivalent to Prachini and Sakaraula to Sakareya in the above Inscriptions 60.

Many scholars have pointed out that 'Yuezhi' in Chinese translates literally as the 'Moon clan" or 'Moon tribe' and have sought supporting evidence with varying degrees of success.6162636465. Mahabharata refers to Kamboja king Chandravarman as descendant of 'Candra' or 'moon' 66. In one version of Mahabharata, the king Chandravarma Kamboja is substituted with Chandravarma Risika which seems to endorse the view that the Kambojas and Risikas were allied or cognate/or agnate people and one may have been a branch of the other as P. C. Bagchi, B. N. Puri, Ishwa Misra and some other scholars think. The Udyogaparava of Mahabharata also very intimately relates the Kambojas with the Risikas. In fact, the Risikas are said to be the Kambojas, according to precise translation of the epic verse of Udyogaparava 67. And the Sabha Parava of the same epic also groups the Parama-Kambojas with the Lohas, Risikas and the Parama-Risikas and styles them as allied tribal groups 68. Kalhana's Rajatarangini, while depicting historical scenario around Kashmir (~730 AD to 740 AD), brackets the Kambojas with the Tukharas 69 and localizes them in the valleys of Oxus 70. In Markandeya Purana, the Tukharas are again mentioned with Kambojas, Daradas, Barbaras and Chinas, and all this people are branded as "vahyato narah" (races of men outside) 71. All these references seem to relate the Kambojas with the Tukharas (Risikas or Asii).

S. Lévi had shown on strong grounds that the Yuezhi existed in the Deccan between 25 and 130 BCE, and now Lévi's claim has been supported by numerous literary sources such as the Ramayana 72, epic Mahabharata 73, Kasika74, the Mahabhasya of Patanjali75, Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira 76, Markandeya Purana 77 and Matsya Purana78 etc., as well as the epigraphic evidence from the Nasik Cave Inscriptions of Queen Balasri which mentions the Risikas (Asikas) as a component of Gautamiputra Satkaranai's empire 79 and strongly endorses the earlier migration of Risikas/Asikas (Asii or Yuezhi) in the Deccan also. The Kambojas are also abundantly attested to have migrated and settled in south-west and southern division of India. See: The Kambojas in West/Southwest India: [5]

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  30. ^ Furthest Kambojas or Para-Kambojas.
  31. ^ NOTE: Besides Northern Risikas, there was also another section of the Risikas called southern Risikas, inhabiting southern India near about Khandes on Krishna river which fact is amply attested from literary sources like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Markandeya Purana, Brhat-Samhita of Varahamihira, Patanjali, Kasika as well as by Nasik Cave Inscriptions of Queen Balasri of Satavahana dynasty which mentions the Risikas (Asikas) as a component of Gautamiputra Satkaranai's empire.
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  59. ^ Parama Risika of the epic would be Para-Risika (Para-Arsika) i.e further Risikas, which could easily become Pasika in Prakrit, Pasiani in Iranian form as well as of the classical writings.
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    Sanskrit
    chandras.tu.ditija.zrestho.loke.taaraa.adhipa.upamah.|
    Candra.varmati vikhiyaatah Kambojanam.nra.dhipah. || 32 ||
    MBH, 1/67/31-32, Gorakhpore edition)
    Translation: "The foremost among the sons of Diti known by the name of Candra and handsome as the lord of the stars himself became on earth noted as Chandravarma, the king of the Kambojas" (The Mahabharata, Book 1, Ch 67, Adi Parva, Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr.[4]).
  67. ^
    Shakanam Pahlavana.n cha Daradanam cha ye nripah./
    Kamboja RishikA ye cha pashchim.anupakashcha ye 15.// (MBH 5/4/15)
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    Lohan.ParamaKambojaan.Risikaan.uttaran.api./
    sahitaams.taan.mahaa.raaja.vyajayat.paaka.zaasanih.//
    Rsikesu.tu.samgraamo.babhuuva.atibhayam.karah./
    taarakaa.maya.samkaazah.ParamaRisika.paarthayoh.//
    MBH 2.27.26-27.
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