Hunter

says (Encyclop. Brit., “ India”) the Buddhist civilisation “received a new impulse from the great kingdom in the Panjab... (Asdka) ‘sent forth his mi ionaries to the utmost limits of the foreign barbarian countries’ to mingle among all unbelievers for the spread of religion.” But Scythians, and Turanians, swept away the Greeks and the Maurya dynasty of Asoka, and ruled in India till the 3rd century A.c. ‘To them probably was due the development of the Mahayana or ritualistic Buddhist school (see Kanishka). Arrian was able, about 150 a.c., to describe the geography of India, but drew much from Megasthenes and other early Greek sources. 409