[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c28.66 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.66 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.66 - **Language:** English ### [c28.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.66) Hiuen Tsang, who recorded the history or tradition which he learned in Kapisa, expressly states that ‘when Kanishka reigned in Gandhāra his power reached the neighbouring states, and his influence extended to distant regions’. He kept order, we are told, over a wide territory reaching to the east of the Tsung-ling mountains, that is to say, ‘the meridional range or ranges which buttress the Pāmīr region on the east and divide it from the Tārīm Basin.'¹ In India his coins are found constantly associated with those of Kadphises II from Kābul to Ghāzīpur on the Ganges, while their vast number and variety indicate a reign of considerable length.² - [Previous: c28.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.65) - [Next: c28.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.67) - [Up: c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.66) · Pramāṇa