The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.76

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Kanishka's capital was Purushapura, the modern Peshāwar, the city which then guarded, as it now does, the main road from the Afghan hills to the Indian plains. There, in his latter days, when he had become a fervent Buddhist, [Figure: INSCRIBED LIFE-SIZE STATUE OF KANISHKA, FROM MĀT IN MATHURĀ DISTRICT *(Photograph by Brajbāsi Friend & Co., Muttra)*]