Virendra
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Bappa didn't rule those places, so I don't see that having own coins and inscriptions struck was so inevitable. Even as per these sources, he only defeated the Kings who ruled there and married their daughters. Seems like a one time campaign, at the end of which he turned ascetic.In that case we at least have some archaeological corroboration. We have Greek coins from NW India, the ruins of Hellenic settlements in the region, and some of the inscriptions of Ashoka (written in Greek) talking about the Greeks in Afghanistan/NW India. Obviously, all of this implies that there was a movement/invasion of Greeks into the region.
In another example, even if no one in medieval India wrote a single text on the history of the period, we would still know that there were Muslim rulers in India simply by looking at the coins, inscriptions, and architecture from the period.
For supposed Indian invasions into Iran we have no evidence whatsoever, besides some folklore.
Greek coins exist here because there were Greek boots on ground facilitating direct rule that spanned across multiple rulers. Unlike that, Bappa would be the lone one, if at all he succeeded the way they've put it.
There is no pattern about Archeological and Epigraphical evidences. They could lie deep down for thousands of years and show up at random.
Current absence does not conclude non-existence.
Discoveries as big as Harappa have been made less than a century back and yet not all the sites are excavated.
I'm one of those who believe that truth comes up one day or the other.
However late, if there is truth to it .. will be revealed.
Regards,
Virendra