The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.131

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² But the *Wei-lio* ‘informs us that during the period of the Three Kingdoms (San-kuo, A. D. 221–277) Kashmīr (Ki-pin), Bactria (Ta-hia), Kābul (Kao-fu) and India (T‘ien-ču) were all subject to the Great Yüe-či’ (*San kuo ci*, *Wei ci*, ch. 30, p. 126; and Chavannes’ translation, *T‘oung Pao*, 1905, pp. 538, 539). Chavannes remarks ‘Thus, in the middle of the third century, the power of the Kushān kings was at its climax. . . . the Chinese text shows that as late as A. D. 230 at least the Kushān dynasty was still in power (Laufer, *The Language of the Yüe-chi*, p. 13).