Mehama

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Mehama, also known as Meyam in Bactrian, ruled the Alchon Huns around 461–493 CE. He is not well known, but the Talagan copper scroll records that he donated to a Buddhist stupa around 492/93, showing the Alchon controlled Buddhist regions near Taxila at that time but had not yet expanded widely in the Indian subcontinent.

A Bactrian letter from 461–462 CE, found in southern Bactria, presents Mehama as Meyam, ruler of the Kadag and a vassal to the Sasanian king Peroz I. Kadagstan refers to a region in southern Bactria, near Baghlan. Mehama allied with Peroz I in the 466 CE victory over the Kidarites and may have helped Peroz seize the throne from Hormizd III. It is thought Mehama later gained some autonomy or independence from the Sasanians.

Mehama died in 493 CE and was succeeded by Lakhana Udayaditya.