The "Kanishka Casket", dated to 127 CE, with the Buddha surrounded by Indra and Brahma. Kanishka appears in the lower part among the scrolls, British Museum.[1]
Created
2nd century CE
Present location
Peshawar Museum, Pakistan (a copy is in British Museum, London)
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The Kanishka casket or Kanishka reliquary, is a Buddhist reliquary made in gilded copper, and dated to the first year of the reign of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, in 127 CE. It is now in the Peshawar Museum in the historic city of Peshawar, Pakistan.
^Myer, Prudence R. (1966). "Again the Kanishka Casket". The Art Bulletin. 48 (3/4): 396. doi:10.2307/3048396. ISSN 0004-3079.
The Kanishkacasket or Kanishka reliquary, is a Buddhist reliquary made in gilded copper, and dated to the first year of the reign of the Kushan emperor...
David Brainard Spooner, and led to the discovery in its base of the Kanishkacasket, a six-sided rock crystal reliquary containing three small fragments...
on the Bimaran casket. Vedic deity Indra on the Bimaran casket. Detail of hamsa goose Detail of a Bodhisattva (see halo). Kanishkacasket "The Bimaran Reliquary...
these ten portions was placed in a reliquary (such as the Kanishkacasket or the Bimaran casket) and buried in a tumulus. These tumuli have been expanded...
very early excavated reliquaries are the 1st-century Bimaran Casket and the KanishkaCasket of 127 AD, both believed to have contained part of the cremated...
and right. 2nd century Gandhara. The "Kanishkacasket," with the Buddha surrounded by Brahma and Indra, and Kanishka on the lower part, 127 CE. A seated...
these ten portions was placed in a reliquary (such as the Kanishkacasket or the Bimaran casket) and buried in a tumulus. These tumuli have been expanded...
as the capital of the Kushan Empire during the rule of Kanishka and was home to the Kanishka Stupa, which was among the tallest buildings in the ancient...
through his generals. His immediate successors were the fabled Hindu kings: Kanishka, Huvishka, and Vasushka or Vasudeva, of whom the first reigned over a territory...
branch of which was known as the Kushans. By the time of his grandson, Kanishka the Great, the empire spread to encompass much of Afghanistan and the northern...
where inscriptions have been found dating to the era of the Kushan emperor Kanishka the Great. The Kushans were most probably one of five branches of the Yuezhi...
Bronze Hu Jade terrapin from Allahabad Kakiemon elephants Kang Hou gui Kanishkacasket Klang Bell Kulu Vase Mathura lion capital Percival David Foundation...
The Bajaur casket, also called the Indravarma reliquary, year 63, or sometimes referred to as the Avaca inscription, is an ancient reliquary from the area...
of the Buddha, after the Bimaran casket (1st century CE), and at about the same time as the Buddhist coins of Kanishka. The two devotees on the right side...
Bronze Hu Jade terrapin from Allahabad Kakiemon elephants Kang Hou gui Kanishkacasket Klang Bell Kulu Vase Mathura lion capital Percival David Foundation...
his generals. His immediate successors were the fabled Buddhist kings: Kanishka, Huvishka, and Vasushka or Vasudeva, of whom the first reigned over a territory...
Bronze Hu Jade terrapin from Allahabad Kakiemon elephants Kang Hou gui Kanishkacasket Klang Bell Kulu Vase Mathura lion capital Percival David Foundation...
disuse after the creation of the Kanishka era, the Kanishka era being used exclusively in inscriptions on relic caskets from the 18th year of his reign...
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