36).

It is often used, as here perhaps, merely as the Buddhist name for India.
(6) This king was perhaps Kanishka himself, Fa-Hsien mixing up, in an inartistic way, different legends about him.

Eitel suggests that a relic of the old name of the country may still exist in that of the Jats or Juts of the present day.

A more common name for it is Tukhara, and he observes that the people were the Indo-Scythians of the Greeks, and the Tartars of Chinese writers, who, driven on by the Huns (180 B.C.), conquered Transoxiana, destroyed the Bactrian kingdom (126 B.C.), and finally conquered the Punjab, Cashmere, and great part of India, their greatest king being Kanishak (E.H., p.

152).
(7) Watters, clearly understanding the thought of the author in this sentence, renders--"his destiny did not extend to a connexion with the bowl;" but the term "destiny" suggests a controlling or directing power without.