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{{short description|Indo-Scythian satrap of the area of Chukhsa, west of Taxila, in the 1st-century BCE}}
[[File:Liaka Kusulaka.jpg|thumb|Coin of Liaka Kusulaka, an imitation of coins of [[Eucratides]].]]
'''Liaka Kusulaka''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|[[wiktionary:Λιακο|Λιακο]] [[wiktionary:Κοζουλο|Κοζουλο]]}} {{transl|grc|Liako Kozoulo}}, on his coins; [[Prakrit]]: Liaka Kusulaka or '''{{lang|pgd|[[wiktionary:𐨫𐨁𐨀𐨐|𐨫𐨁𐨀𐨐𐨆]] [[wiktionary:𐨐𐨂𐨯𐨂𐨫𐨂𐨐|𐨐𐨂𐨯𐨂𐨫𐨂𐨐𐨆]]}}''' {{transl|pgd|Li-a-ko Ku-su-lu-ko}}, {{transl|pgd|Liako Kusuluko}}, on the [[Taxila copper plate]]<ref name="Konow">{{cite book |last=Konow |first=Sten |author-link=Sten Konow |date=1929 |title=Kharoshṭhī Inscriptions: with the Exception of Those of Aśoka |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62020 |location=Kolkata |publisher=Government of India Central Publication Branch |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62020/page/n163/mode/2up 23]-[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62020/page/n167/mode/2up 28], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62020/page/n169/mode/2up PLATE V]}}</ref>) was an [[Indo-Scythian]] [[satrap]] of the area of [[Chukhsa]] in the northwestern [[South Asia]] during the 1st century BCE.

==Name==
Liaka Kusulaka's name is recorded on his coins in the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] form {{transl|grc|Liako Kozoulo}} ({{lang|grc|[[wiktionary:Λιακο|Λιακο]] [[wiktionary:Κοζουλο|Κοζουλο]]}}), and on the [[Taxila copper plate]] in the [[Kharosthi]] form {{transl|pgd|Liako Kusuluko}} ({{lang|pgd|[[wiktionary:𐨫𐨁𐨀𐨐|𐨫𐨁𐨀𐨐𐨆]] [[wiktionary:𐨐𐨂𐨯𐨂𐨫𐨂𐨐|𐨐𐨂𐨯𐨂𐨫𐨂𐨐𐨆]]}}).<ref name="Konow"/> The name is composed od from [[Saka language|Saka]] {{lang|xsc|*Ryaka}}, meaning "youth" and {{lang|xsc|*Kuzulaka}} "striving, ambitious, energetic".<ref>{{cite book |last=Harmatta |first=János |author-link=János Harmatta |editor-last1=Harmatta |editor-first1=János |editor-link1=János Harmatta |editor-last2=Puri |editor-first2=B. N. |editor-link2=Baij Nath Puri |editor-last3=Etemadi |editor-first3=G. F. |date=1999 |chapter=Languages and scripts in Graeco-Bactria and the Saka Kingdoms |title=History of civilizations of Central Asia |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DguGWP0vGY8C |location=Delhi |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass|Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House]] |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9U6RlVVjpakC&pg=PA410#v=onepage&q&f=false 410] |isbn=978-8-120-81408-0}}</ref>

==Reign==
[[Image:TaxilaCopperPlate.JPG|thumb|Liaka Kusulaka is mentioned in the [[Taxila copper plate]] ([[British Museum]]).]]
He is mentioned in the [[Taxila copper plate]] inscription (Konow 1929: 23-29), dated between 90 and 6 BCE, as the father of [[Patika Kusulaka]], and is characterized as a "kshaharata" (also the name of the first dynasty of the [[Western Satraps]]) and as kshatrapa of Chukhsa.

He minted coins which are direct imitations of the coins of [[Eucratides]] (King's head and [[Dioscuri]]), with his name inscribed "ΛΙΑΚΟ ΚΟΖΟΥΛΟ".

The name "Κοζουλο" was also used by the first [[Kushan]] ruler [[Kujula Kadphises]] (Greek: Κοζουλου Καδφιζου, ''Kozoulou Kadphizou'' or Κοζολα Καδαφες, ''Kozola Kadaphes''), which may suggest some family connection.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rapson |first=E. J. |author-link=E. J. Rapson |date=1908 |title=Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty, the Western Kṣatrapas, the Traikūṭaka Dynasty, and the “Bodhi” Dynasty |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcoins00brit |location=London |publisher=[[Longman|Longman & Co]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcoins00brit/page/n109/mode/2up cvi] |isbn=978-1-332-41465-9 }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060125085242/http://www.grifterrec.com/y/cribb/ekk_cribb_03.html Dates for Kanishka and the Indo-Scythians]
*[http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hhshu/appendices.html Liaka Kusulaka onomastics]

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