The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.120
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.120
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The town of Hushkapura, founded by Huvishka in Kashmīr, occupied a position of exceptional importance just inside the Bārāmūla Pass, then known as the 'western gate' of the valley, and continued for centuries to be a place of note. When Hiuen Tsang visited Kashmīr about A. D. 631, he enjoyed the liberal hospitality of the Hushkapura monastery for several days, and was escorted thence with all honour to the capital, where he found numerous religious institutions, attended by some five thousand monks. The town of Hushkapura is now represented by the small village of Ushkür, at which the ruins of an ancient *stūpa* are visible.²