Though the sameness in name between the Mihiras and Mihirakula (A.D. 508-530), the great Indian champion of the White Húnas, may not imply sameness of tribe it points to a common sun-worship. [475] That the Multán sun-worship was introduced under Sassanian influence is supported by the fact (Wilson's Ariana Antiqua, 357) that the figure of the sun on the fifth century Hindu sun coins is in the dress of a Persian king; that the priests who performed the Multán sun-worship were called Magas; and by the details of the dress and ritual in the account of the introduction of sun-worship given in the Bhavishya Purána. [476] That the Meyds or Mands had some share in its introduction is supported by the fact that the Purána names the third or Sudra class of the sun-worshippers Mandagas. [477] That the Meyds were associated with the Magas is shown by the mention of the Magas as Mihiragas. [478] The third class whom the Bhavishya Purána associates with the introduction of sun-worship are the Mânas who are given a place between the Magas and the Mands. The association of the Mânas with the Mihiras or Maitrakas suggests that Mâna is Mauna a Puránic name for the White Húnas. [479] That the Multán sun idol of the sixth and seventh centuries was a Húna idol and Multán the capital of a Húna dynasty seems in agreement with the paramount position of the Rais of Alor or Rori in the sixth century. Though their defeat by Yesodharmman of Málwa about A.D. 540 at the battle of Karur, sixty miles east of Multán, may have ended Húna supremacy in north and north-west India it does not follow that authority at once forsook the Húnas. Their widespread and unchallenged dominion in North India, the absence of record of any reverse later than the Karur defeat, the hopelessness of any attempt to pass out of India in the face of the combined Turk and Sassanian forces make it probable that the Húnas and their associated tribes, adopting Hinduism and abandoning their claim to supremacy, settled in west and north-west India. This view finds support in the leading place which the Húnas and Hára-Húnas, the Maitrakas or Mers, and the Gurjjaras hold in the centuries that follow the overthrow of the White Húna empire. According to one rendering of Cosmas [480] (A.D. 525) the chief of Orrhotha or Sorath in common with several other coast rulers owed allegiance to Gollas, apparently, as is suggested at page 75 of the text, to Gulla or Mihirgulla the Indian Emperor of the White Húnas. These details support the view that the Maitrakas, Mihiras, or Mers who in Cosmas' time were in power in Káthiáváda, and to whose ascendancy during the seventh and eighth centuries both the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsiang (A.D. 612-640) and the Arab historians of Sindh bear witness, were a portion of the great White Húna invasion (A.D. 480-530). [481] In the many recorded swarmings south from Central Asia into Persia and India no feature is commoner than the leading of the conquered by certain