[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c21.2 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c21.2 The Greeks in Bactria and India c21.2 - **Language:** English ### [c21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.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. - [Previous: c20.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c20.16) - [Next: c21.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c21.3) - [Up: c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c21) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c21.2) · Pramāṇa