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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...
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    starting in 186 to 175 BCE. Kanishka casket The "Kanishka casket" or "Kanishka reliquary", dated to the first year of Kanishka's reign in 127 CE, was discovered...
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    David Brainard Spooner, and led to the discovery in its base of the Kanishka casket, a six-sided rock crystal reliquary containing three small fragments...
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    leading to the identification of the Kanishka stupa dated to the 2nd century CE, and the discovery of the Kanishka casket. Spooner published a paper following...
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    on the Bimaran casket. Vedic deity Indra on the Bimaran casket. Detail of hamsa goose Detail of a Bodhisattva (see halo). Kanishka casket "The Bimaran Reliquary...
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  • dictionary. Kanishka (c. AD 127–163) was the emperor of the Kushan dynasty. Kanishka, Kaniska or Kaniška may also refer to: Kanishka casket, a Buddhist...
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    these ten portions was placed in a reliquary (such as the Kanishka casket or the Bimaran casket) and buried in a tumulus. These tumuli have been expanded...
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    the Buddha, Brahma and Indra. The "Kanishka casket," with the Buddha surrounded by Brahma and Indra, and Kanishka on the lower part, AD 127. Buddha triad...
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    very early excavated reliquaries are the 1st-century Bimaran Casket and the Kanishka Casket of 127 AD, both believed to have contained part of the cremated...
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    and right. 2nd century Gandhara. The "Kanishka casket," with the Buddha surrounded by Brahma and Indra, and Kanishka on the lower part, 127 CE. A seated...
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