[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) › c28.99 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.99 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.99 - **Language:** English ### [c28.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.99) ¹ R. F. Johnston, \*Buddhist China\* (John Murray, 1913), who speaks with authority, gives a general survey of the Mahāyāna system and discredits the theory that its rise was directly due to Kanishka. On the contrary its growth may be traced from the earliest stages of the religion, back to the disputes and discussions of the Hīnayāna schools (review by W. P. Yetts, in \*J. R. A. S.\*, 1914, pp. 478–83). - [Previous: c28.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.98) - [Next: c28.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.100) - [Up: c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c28.99) · Pramāṇa