Talk:Kanishka's war with Parthia

@MrHappy2020 why did you change the number of casualties when the sources states 900,000 Parthians were killed Jonharojjashi (talk) 03:24, 17 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Because it is quite literally impossible for them to be able to both assemble and lose such a army. The parthian army only reached a size of 50k and that was against the romans their worst enemy so how did they lose 900000 soldiers in one war? MrHappy2020 (talk) 08:41, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Not the parthian army many sources says 900000 parthian people were killed/massacred by Kanishka even inscriptional sources we can't change it even if it could have been exaggerated Jonharojjashi (talk) 11:43, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 7 October 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved to Kanishka's war with Parthia (non-admin closure). Jenks24 (talk) 09:44, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Second Parthian–Kushan War → Parthian–Kushan War – Per the discussion at, since this is a made up name. I guess this is the best name we got. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:49, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom पाटलिपुत्र  (Pataliputra)  (talk) 14:46, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Srnec (talk) 17:16, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Prefer Kanishka's war with Parthia as suggested by User:Srnec in the AfD, since it anchors the subject to the person of Kanishka just like the single source attesting it does. The absence of contemporary historical records in either of the puported belligerent polities makes it impossible to state that this conflict isn't just a notable legend, a Buddhist morality tale to hype their great patron Kanishka, but during research I became increasingly convinced that was the case.To my knowledge, there are no sources that use the term "Parthian–Kushan war" or "Kushan–Parthian war", although most secondary sources do treat it as a possible historical incident in central Asian politics, delta the casualty figures. Most legends grow from a germ of truth. For convenience, I also weakly support the proposed title. Folly Mox (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Kanishka's war with Parthia also sounds good to me, I wouldn't oppose that. --HistoryofIran (talk) 18:07, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Fine with me too. Srnec (talk) 21:11, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Neutral or Support sensible names. I accepted this at AFC and I trusted the suggested name.  Please consider while moving whether there was a First Fooian War, and why this was considered to be the second one by the submitting editor. 🇺🇦  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 18:28, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thorley 1979 (Wikipedia Library link), which is fairly sanguine on the historicity of the event, postulates a prior conflict. Folly Mox (talk) 18:58, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The problem with "second" is that it implies precisely one prior war. But if we are very unsure how many wars there were, if any, we should never use "second" unless reliable sources explicitly describe it as such. It isn't acceptable in a descriptive title otherwise. Srnec (talk) 21:11, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

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