Write a short note on kushana age on 100 words
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Answer:Kushan dynasty, Kushan also spelled Kusana, ruling line descended from the Yuezhi, a people that ruled over most of the northern Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia during the first three centuries of the Common Era. The Yuezhi conquered Bactria in the 2nd century BCE and divided the country into five chiefdoms, one of which was that of the Kushans (Guishuang). A hundred years later the Kushan chief Kujula Kadphises (Qiu Jiuque) secured the political unification of the Yuezhi kingdom under himself.
bodhisattva Maitreya
bodhisattva Maitreya
Bodhisattva Maitreya, schist sculpture from Gandhara, Pakistan, Kushan dynasty, 2nd–3rd century; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Photograph by David Jackson. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IS.4-1971
Under Kaniska I (flourished 1st century CE) and his successors, the Kushan kingdom reached its height. It was acknowledged as one of the four great Eurasian powers of its time (the others being China, Rome, and Parthia). The Kushans were instrumental in spreading Buddhism in Central Asia and China and in developing Mahayana Buddhism and the Gandhara and Mathura schools of art.
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