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KANISHKA , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Kabul, See also:Kashmir, and See also:north-western See also:India in the 2nd See also:century A.D., was a Tatar of the Kushan tribe, one of the five into which the Yue-chi See also:Tatars were divided. His dominions extended as far down into India as See also:Madura, and probably as far to the north-See also:west as See also:Bokhara. Private See also:inscriptions found in the See also:Punjab and See also:Sind, in the Yusufzai See also:district and at Madura, and referred by See also:European scholars to his reign, are dated in the years See also:Eve to twenty-eight of an unknown era. It is the references by See also:Chinese historians to the Yue-chi tribes before their incursion into India, together with conclusions See also:drawn from the See also:history of See also:art and literature in his reign, that render the date given the most probable. Kanishka's predecessors on the See also:throne were Pagans; but shortly after his See also:accession he professed himself, probably from See also:political reasons, a Buddhist. He spent vast sums in the construction of Buddhist monuments; and under his auspices the See also:fourth Buddhist See also:council, the council of Jalandhara (Jullunder) was convened under the See also:presidency of Vasumitra. At this council three See also:treatises, commentaries on the See also:Canon, one on each of the three baskets into which it is divided, were composed. King Kanishka had these treatises, when completed and revised by Asvaghosha, written out on See also:copper plates, and enclosed the latter in See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone boxes, which he placed in a memorial See also:mound. For some centuries afterwards these See also:works survived in India; but they exist now only in Chinese See also:translations or adaptations. We are not told in what See also:language they were written. It was probably See also:Sanskrit (not See also:Pali, the language of the Canon)—just as in See also:Europe we have works of exegetical commentary composed, in Latin, on the basis of the Testament and See also:Septuagint in See also:Greek. This See also:change of the language used as a See also:medium of See also:literary inter-course was partly the cause, partly the effect, of a See also:complete revulsion in the intellectual See also:life of India. The reign of Kanishka was certainly the turning-point in this remarkable change. It has been suggested with See also:great plausibility, that the wide extent of his domains facilitated the incursion into India of Western modes of thought; and thus led in the first See also:place to the corruption and See also:gradual decline of See also:Buddhism, and secondly to the gradual rise of See also:Hinduism. Only the publication of the books written at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time will enable us to say whether this See also:hypothesis—for at See also:present. it is nothing more—is really a sufficient explanation of the very important results of his reign. In any See also:case it was a See also:migration of See also:nomad hordes in Central See also:Asia that led, in Europe, to the downfall of the See also:Roman See also:civilization; and then, through the See also:conversion of the invaders, to See also:medieval conditions of life and thought. It was the very same migration of nomad hordes that led, in India, to the downfall of the Buddhist civilization; and subsequently, after the conversion of the See also:Saka and Tatar invaders, to medieval Hinduism. As India was nearer to the starting-point of the migration, its results were See also:felt there some-what sooner.
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