Around the middle of the 6th century CE, the
Alchons, after having extensively invaded the heartland of India, had withdrawn from
Kashmir,
Punjab and
Gandhara, and going back west across the
Khyber Pass they resettled in
Kabulistan. It seems that there was a direct confrontation between the Alchon Toramana II and the
Nezaks in
Kabulistan, as he made overstrikes of Nezak coins, and at the same time adopted the Nezak bull's head in his own crown in some of his coins minted in
Gandhara. The legend of the coins of Toramana II were previously mistakenly read as "
srī nara" and "
nara", leading to suggestions that there was an Alchon Hun king named "Narana" or "Narendra". Since a 2013 study by Matthias Pfisterer, it has been recognized that the legends on these coins should be read as "srī tora" and "tora", hence the attribution to a "Toramana II". According to Michael Alram, the supposed king "Narana" or "Narendra" should be "deleted without substitution". The coins of Toramana II in Kabulistan generally have the mention "His Excellence, King Tora", and some of them are overstrikes over Nezak coins. ==Coinage==