yetha

Updated: July 28, 2026

Of the Yetha or Ephthalites they make the general observation that "their rules of politeness are very defective." But they also say that the population of Gandhara had a great respect for Buddhism and as they took back to China 170 volumes, "all standard works belonging to the Great Vehicle," the Ephthalite persecution cannot have destroyed the faith in north-western India.

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