The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.7
The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.7
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c15.7
In the meantime the north-western part of Asoka's dominions had been occupied by invaders of Scythian or Iranian descent about the second century B.C., and by A.D. 45 a chieftain of the Kushans, one of their tribes, founded a dynasty under which Buddhism, the religion adopted by these clans probably as the result of Asoka's missionary enterprises, began to enter upon a new phase.