Suvará¹Âapuá¹£pa (, Swarnabà «spe in Tocharian, or directly translated as "Golden Flower") was a King of the Tarim Basin city-state of Kucha from 600 to 625. He was known in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) as Kucëà Âvara Suvará¹Âapuá¹£pa "Suvará¹Âapuá¹£pa, lord of Kucha". He was known in Chinese as Bái Sà «fábójué (, the prefix "ç½" means "white", possibly pointing to the fair complexion of the Kucheans) as he sent an embassy to the court of the Tang dynasty in 618 CE acknowledging vassalship.
Suvará¹Âapuá¹£pa is in of the Kizil Caves, with an inscription in Brahmi script on his halo:
Suvará¹Âapuá¹£pa is known to have ruled between 600 and 625, and his three sons died before 647 CE according to Chinese sources.
When he visited Kucha in 630 CE, the Chinese monk Xuanzang received the favours of Suvarna-deva (Chinese: ç½èÂÂä¼Âç Bái Sà «fádié, ruled 625-645 CE), the son and successor of Suvarna-puspa, and king of Kucha.
Xuanzang described in many details the characteristics of Kucha (å±Âæ¯å½, in "大åÂÂ西åÂÂè®°" "Tang Dynasty Account of the Western Regions"), and probably visited Kizil:<br> 1) "The style of writing is Indian, with some differences"<br> 2) "They clothe themselves with ornamental garments of silk and embroidery. They cut their hair and wear a flowing covering (over their heads)"<br> 3) "The king is of Kuchean race"<br> 4) "There are about one hundred convents (saá¹ ghÃÂrÃÂmas) in this country, with five thousand and more disciples. These belong to the Little Vehicle of the school of the SarvÃÂstivÃÂdas (Shwo-yih-tsai-yu-po). Their doctrine (teaching of Sà «tras) and their rules of discipline (principles of the Vinaya) are like those of India, and those who read them use the same (originals)."<br> 5) "About 40 li to the north of this desert city there are two convents close together on the slope of a mountain".
These events were soon before the Tang campaign against Kucha in 648 CE.
Suvarna-deva is known from an inscription in which he is called in Tocharian "Swarnatepe":
Haripuspa was the son and successor of Savarnadeva.
Suvará¹Âapuá¹£pa is in of the Kizil Caves, with an inscription in Brahmi script on his halo.