KANISHKA'S BUDDHIST COUNCIL

237 ful men. Such a Buddha rightly took a place among the gods of the nations comprised in Kanishka's wide- spread empire, and the monarch, even after his " con- BXTERNAL ELEVATION OF THE GKKAT BALL AT AMABAVATI. version, " probably continued to honour both the old and the new gods, as, in a later age, Harsha did alter- nate reverence to Siva and Buddha. The celebrated Gandhara sculptures, of which the best examples date from the time of Kanishka and his