The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.8
The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.8
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The impelling cause was only incidentally dynastic and racial. The new invaders, by their adoption of Buddhist culture, merely contributed one more racial subdivision to the Indo-Aryan synthesis. The Kushan king, Kanishkâ, emulated Asoka's zeal for the religion of his Indian subjects, and there is no reason to suppose that the Scythian invasions disturbed to any great extent the organisation of the Aryan village communities in north-western India.