The Greeks in Bactria and India c21.2

c21.2

The controversy whether the Chinese Ki-pin in the Kushan period meant Kapisa or Kashmir is now, or ought to be, ancient history; there is no reasonable doubt that the word meant the Kushan empire, which included Kapisa and Kashmir and much else; if you went to either place you went to Ki-pin.¹ But the Chinese had the word long before the Kushan period; and its earlier meaning has its bearing on the story of the Greeks in India.