Chhu

{{Short description|Late Kushan Empire ruler}} [[File:Coin of Kushan ruler Chhu.jpg|thumb|270px|Coin of Kushan ruler Chhu. The “Chhu” letter [[File:Gupta ashoka chhu.jpg|14px]] in the [[Brahmi script]] appears under the left arm of the ruler.<ref>{{cite book |title=Catalogue Of The Coins In The Indian Museum Calcutta Vol I |date=1906 |page=89 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61213/page/n129}}</ref>]] {{Kushan rulers}} '''Chhu''' ([[Brahmi script]]: [[File:Gupta ashoka chhu.jpg|14px]] ''Chhu'') seems to have been a late [[Kushan Empire]] ruler, who ruled from 310 to 325 [[Common Era|CE]].<ref name=VS>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Vincent Arthur |title=Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum Calcutta Including the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal |date=1906 |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0RrGjwBIWcYC |language=en}}</ref> His coinage is very similar to that of his near-contemporary [[Vasudeva II|Vasudeva]].<ref>{{cite book |title=East and West |date=1975 |publisher=Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjsTAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> His rule corresponds to the last days of the Kushan Empire, before the conquest by [[Kidara]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitchiner |first1=Michael |title=The ancient & classical world, 600 B.C.-A.D. 650 |date=1978 |publisher=Hawkins Publications; distributed by B. A. Seaby |isbn=9780904173161 |pages=8/465 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuQLAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref>

The rule of Chhu was probably centered on the [[Punjab]] and neighbouring areas.<ref>{{cite book |title=Catalogue Of The Coins In The Indian Museum Calcutta Vol I |date=1906 |pages=88–89 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61213/page/n129}}</ref>

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