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FULL details have now reached this country of the remarkable discovery made by Dr. D. B. Spooner, of the Indian Archaeological Survey, in the neighbourhood of Peshawar. Hitherto the site of the great Stupa erected at the ancient city of Purushapura by the Kushan Emperor Kanishka, who ascended. the throne about 123 A.D., to enshrine the relics of Gautama Buddha, was unknown. It was described by Hieuen Tsang and other Buddhist pilgrims from China as far the most famous and magnificent of the pagodas in India. A few years ago M. Foucher, the eminent French archæologist, suggested that it lay beneath certain tumuli in the neighbourhood of Peshawar. Excavations conducted by Dr. Spooner corroborate this identification.
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Archæological and Ethnographical explorations . Nature 81, 232 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081232a0
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