Kanishka
Sign in to saveKanishka I, also known as Kanishka the Great, was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty, under whose reign (–150 CE) the empire reached its zenith. He is famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements. A descendant of Kujula Kadphises, founder of the Kushan empire, Kanishka came to rule an empire extending from Central Asia and Gandhara to Pataliputra on the Gangetic plain. The main capital of his empire was located at Puruṣapura (Peshawar) in Gandhara, with another major capital at Mathura. Coins of Kanishka were found in Tripuri (present-day Jabalpur).
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Kanishka the Great was a Kushan emperor who ruled during the height of his empire's power (circa 127–150 CE), controlling territory stretching from Central Asia through Gandhara to the Gangetic plain in India. He is remembered for his significant military, political, and spiritual accomplishments, including establishing major capitals at Peshawar and Mathura, and his reign marked the peak of Kushan imperial dominance.
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- 1925
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18 sectionsContents
- Genealogy
- Conquests in India and Central Asia
- Kanishka's coins
- Hellenistic phase
- Iranian / Indic phase
- Kanishka and Buddhism
- Buddhist coinage
- Standing Buddha
- "Shakyamuni Buddha"
- "Maitreya Buddha"
- Buddhist statuary under Kanishka
- Kanishka stupa
- Kanishka in Buddhist tradition
- Transmission of Buddhism to China
- See also
- Footnotes
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Kanishka I, also known as Kanishka the Great, was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty, under whose reign (–150 CE) the empire reached its zenith. He is famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements. A descendant of Kujula Kadphises, founder of the Kushan empire, Kanishka came to rule an empire extending from Central Asia and Gandhara to Pataliputra on the Gangetic plain. The main capital of his empire was located at Puruṣapura (Peshawar) in Gandhara, with another major capital at Mathura. Coins of Kanishka were found in Tripuri (present-day Jabalpur).
Although he never converted to the religion, his conquests and patronage of Buddhism played an important role in the development of the Silk Road, and in the transmission of Mahayana Buddhism from Gandhara across the Karakoram range to China. Around 127 CE, he replaced Greek with Bactrian as the official language of administration in the empire.