kanishka's

Updated: June 23, 2025

Legends ascribe Kanishka's fervour for the Buddhist faith not to education but to conversion. His coinage, of which abundant specimens have been preserved, confirms this for it presents images of Greek, Persian, Indian and perhaps Babylonian deities showing how varied was the mythology which may have mingled with Gandharan Buddhism.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2