So far as our use of language is concerned, apart from any assured faith in and hope of immortality, his pari-nirvana was his death.
(4) Kanishka appeared, and began to reign, early in our first century, about A.D.10.

He was the last of three brothers, whose original seat was in Yueh-she, immediately mentioned, or Tukhara.

Converted by the sudden appearance of a saint, he became a zealous Buddhist, and patronised the system as liberally as Asoka had done.

The finest topes in the north-west of India are ascribed to him; he was certainly a great man and a magnificent sovereign.
(5) Jambudvipa is one of the four great continents of the universe, representing the inhabited world as fancied by the Buddhists, and so called because it resembles in shape the leaves of the jambu tree.

It is south of mount Meru, and divided among four fabulous kings (E.H., p.