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	Peshawar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Located on the edge of the Khyber pass, Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pakistani frontier and, particularly, of the Pashtuns.
		In ancient times the city was known as Purushapura when it was officially founded by the Kushans.
		The city that would become Peshawar, called Purushapura, was actually founded by the Kushans, a central asian tribe of Tocharian origin, over 2,000 years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peshawar (3415 words)

	The Kushan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kushans, with their capital at Purushapura (Peshawar) had their dominions on both sides of the Hindu Kush i.e., extending up to and including parts of Turkistan in the north-west, embracing the whole of modern Afghanistan, and in the east the entire Pakistan and major portion of northern India.
		Gandhara i.e., the territory lying in the valleys of the Kabul and the Middle Indus, became the centre of a vast empire.
		The city of Purushapura (the present-day Peshawar) is known to have been the capital of Kanishka.
	pakhtun.com /theKushan.htm (1359 words)

	Peshawar Did You Mean peshawar
		Pesh?war (translates to City on the Frontier from Persian; known as Pai-khawar in Pashto; in ancient times known as Purushapura in Sanskrit) is a city in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (pop.
		The city that would become Peshawar, called Purushapura, was founded by the Kushans, a Central Asian tribe of Tocharian origin, over 2,000 years ago.
		Prior to this period the region was affiliated with Gandhara and was invaded and annexed first by the Persian Achaemenid empire and then the Hellenic empire of Alexander the Great.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Peshawar.html (1737 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism
		According to one influential account, he was born in Khotan and came from a family line different from that of Kushan dynasty founder Kujula Kadphises and his successor, Vima Kadphises.
		He made Purushapura (present-day Peshawar in Pakistan) the capital of his Kushan kingdom, which prospered as a transit-caravan center and a crossroad for Eastern and Western civilizations to meet.
		He also built a great stupa in the suburbs of his capital at Purushapura.
	sgi-usa.org /buddhism/dictionary/define?tid=2171 (375 words)

	Gandhara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kushan empire was comprised of two distinct geographic areas, Mathura and Gandhara, each with its own discrete artistic style.
		Gandhara was centered in Purushapura (now Peshwar) and included the area north of the Indus Rive, primarily in present-day Pakistan.
		Gandharan art was the first in history to portray the Buddha in human form.
	www.afaweb.org /exhibitions/Gandhara_000.php (352 words)

	Sticky Story of the Week!
		The rule of Kanishka I, the fourth Kushan emperor, who flourished for at least 28 years from c.
		127, was administered from a winter capital in Purushapura (now Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan) and a summer capital in Bagram(then known as Kapisa).
		The rule of the Kushans linked the seagoing trade of the Indian Ocean with the commerce of the Silk Road through the long-civilized Indus Valley.
	www.rungg.com /streetTeams/pages.php?goto=story0061 (1997 words)

	Taxila2002-1
		Taxila was one of the capitals of ancient kingdom of Gandhara – the other being Purushapura (later renamed Peshawar).
		Though Taxila was one of the capitals of Gandhara – the other being Purushapura (later renamed Peshawar) – Buddhist monuments of the same period are also found in Peshawar, Takht-i-Bha’I, Sahri Bahlol and numerous other sites." – Dr.
		Sir John Marshall was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of British India from 1913 to 1934, and Sir Mortimer Wheeler continued the work in 1944.
	www.the-south-asian.com /Oct2002/Taxila2002-1.htm (884 words)

	Buddhist art and its Pakistani origin -DAWN - Gallery July 15, 2006
		What exact areas its borders comprised cannot be determined with any great accuracy today, but, according to Hsiang Tsang, the famed Chinese traveler, Empire of Gandhara, “extends about 1000 li from East to West and about 800 li from North to South.
		It is bounded on East by Sin (Sindhu-Indus) river and its capital was Po-lu-sha pu-lo (Purushapura = Peshawar).”
		This testimony, along with other available evidence, indicates that the kingdom of Gandhara was confined to the territories West of Indus, now comprising the valley of Peshawar and the hilly districts of Swat, Buner and Bajaur.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/gallery/gallery1.htm (2039 words)

	Kushan Empire (ca. 2nd century B.C.-3rd century A.D.) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They had learned to use a form of the Greek alphabet, and Kujula's son was the first Indian ruler to strike gold coins in imitation of the Roman aureus exchanged along the
		The rule of Kanishka, the third Kushan emperor who flourished from the late first to the early/mid-second century A.D., was administered from two capitals: Purushapura (now Peshawar) near the Khyber Pass, and Mathura in northern India.
		Under Kanishka's rule, at the height of the dynasty, Kushan controlled a large territory ranging from the Aral Sea through areas that include present-day Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into northern India as far east as Benares and as far south as Sanchi.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/kush/hd_kush.htm (420 words)

	History of Pakistan - Ancient Empires of SubContinent
		The Kushans further extende their rule from Bay of Bangal to Bahawalpur, and upto Kashgar the chinese frontier.
		Kushan Empire was eroded by Sassanian from North, and Gupta Empire from South.
		Then Kushan Empire was reduced to a new dynasty of Kidar (Little) Kushans with Purushapura as capital and center.
	www.angelfire.com /al/badela/timeline1.html (474 words)

	Definitions \| Kushaana
		After Asoka, the empire became divided and weakened.
		An aggressive nomadic group from the north pushed in, and soon succeeded in establishing control over Gandhara, a region in the extreme northwest, with the centre of power at Takshasila or Taxila (about fifteen kilometres from the modern Rawalpindi now in Pakistan), and Purushapura (modern Peshawar) as the capital.
		Kanishka (s.v.) was the well known king of this dynasty, who was the key figure in spreading Buddhism to China, Tibet and Japan.
	repository0.tripod.com /kushana.html (98 words)

	A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Fa-hsien (chapter12)
		Going southwards from Gandhara, (the travellers) in four days arrived at the kingdom of Purushapura.
		Formerly, when Buddha was travelling in this country with his disciples, he said to Ananda,
		(There) Hwuy-king fell ill, and Tao-ching remained to look after him, while Hwuy-tah came alone to Purushapura, and saw the others, and (then) he with Pao-yun and Sang-king took their way back to the land of Ts’in.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /f/fa-hien/f15l/chapter12.html (1233 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: Amma's Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It took him six years to cross the Indus river and reach Middle India since he had left his native Chaangan.
		From Khotan Gandhara Swat, Takshashila and Purushapura (Taxila & Peshawar both now in Pakistan), he had crossed thirty countries.
		He stayed at Mathura and Pataliputra for six years.
	www.kamat.com /jyotsna/blog/blog.php?BlogID=790 (585 words)

	Glasgow Zen Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After his conversion, he spread the Dharma in Pataliputra, which is now Patna, as a teacher and also poet and musician.
		That town was seized by a king of the Yueh-chi, and Ashvaghosha taken to Purushapura (Chattopadhyaya 1970:391f).
		There he became a confidant of the great king Kanishka, converting him to Buddhism.
	www.glasgowzen.org /master-ashvagosha.html (161 words)

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