     kanishka (kanishka the great), (, bactrian language: , middle chinese: è¿¦è»è²ä¼½ (ka-ni-sak-ka > new chinese: jiÄnÃ¬sÃ¨jiÄ)) was an emperor of the kushan dynasty (127â151) who ruled an empire extending from turfan in the tarim basin to pataliputra on the gangetic plain and famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements. his main capital was at purushpura (peshawar in present-day khyber pakhtunkhwa, pakistan) with regional capitals at the location of present-day bagram in afghanistan and mathura in india. during 90-110 ad when he was ruling over northern india/bactria, raja dab, along with emperor kanishka, believed to have built the qila mubarak fort at bathinda. ==genealogy==   kanishka was a kushan of probable yuezhi ethnicity. he used an eastern iranian, indo-european language known as bactrian (called "Î±ÏÎ¹Î±," i. e. "aryan" in the rabatak inscription), which appears in greek script in his inscriptions, though it is not certain what language the kushans originally spoke; possibly some form of tocharian â a "centum" indo-european language. the "aryan" language of the inscription was a "satem" middle iranian language,gnoli (2002), pp. 84â90. possibly the one spoken in "arya" or "ariana" (the region around modern herat) and was, therefore, quite possibly unrelated to the original language of the kushans (or the yuezhi), but adopted by them to facilitate communication with local people.  kanishka was the successor of [[vima kadphis
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