ORIENTAL SERIES.

14* KAMYAKA KANISHKA.
It corresponds with the Kampila of modern times, situated
in the Doab on the old Ganges, between Badaun and Farrukh-
abad.
KAMYAKA. The forest in which the Paftdavas passed their
exile on the banks of the Saraswatl.
KAJVADA. The sage who founded the Vaiseshika school of
philosophy.
See Darsana.
KANCHl. One of the seven sacred cities, hodie Conjeveram.
KAKDAEPA. The Hindu Cupid. See Kama.
ELLZVDAESHI. A Rishi who teaches one particular Kanda
or part of the Yedas.
EjUVDTJ. A sage who was beguiled from long and severe
austerities by Pramlocha, a nymph sent from heaven by Indra
for this purpose. He lived with her some hundreds of years,
which seemed to him only as a day, but he at length repudiated
her and " went to the region of Vishnu." Pramlocha gave birth,
in an extraordinary manner, to his daughter Marisha (q.v.).
KANISHKA. " Hushka, Jushka, Kanishka." These are the
names recorded in the Baja Tarangim of three great Turushka,
that is Turk or Tatar, kings, who were of the Buddhist religion,
It may, perhaps, be taken for granted that Hushka and Jushka
come in their natural succession, for the names might be trans-
posed without detriment to the metre; but the short syllable
of the name Kanishka is required where it stands by the rules
of prosody, so that the position of the name in the verse is not
decisive of his place in the succession of kings. Nothing is
known of Jushka beyond the simple recital of his name as
above quoted, but the names of Kanishka and Hushka (or
Huvishka) have been found in inscriptions and upon coins,
showing that their dominions were of considerable extent in
Northern India, and that they were, as the Kaja Tarangira represents,
great supporters of the Buddhist religion. The name
of Kanishka has been found in inscriptions at Mathura, Manik-
yala, Bhawalpur, and Zeda, while his name appears on the
corrupt Greek coins as Kanerki, Huvishka's name has been
found at Mathura and on a metal vase from Wardak in
as OerkL
Afghanistan ; on the coins his name is represented
Kanishka preceded Huvishka, and it is certain that their
reigns
covered a period of fifty-one years, and probably more. The time
at which they reigned seems to have been just before the Cbris