A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism (Popular Dictionaries of Religion) by Karel Werner

Author:Karel Werner [Werner, Karel]
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2005-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

kusa

a species of grass, Desmostachya bipinnata, regarded as most sacred. It was spread out on Vedic altars and the adjoining sacrificial area and burnt after the ritual. It is used by some ascetics for mats to sit on during meditation.

the name for a conglomerate of tribal groups, most of them of IE stock, extant in Central Asia, East Iran and Afghanistan, who penetrated to India at the turn of our era. The bulk of them may have been Tocharians (known as Yüe-chi in Chinese), allied to Parthians (Pahlavas) mixed with contingents of Scythians (Sakas). The dynasty established an empire in the first century A.D. stretching from North India to Central Asia, thereby opening the route for the spread of Hindu and Buddhist influences to Central Asia, China and the Far East. I founded (modern Peshawar) cca 120 A.D. and patronized Buddhism while fully respecting other religions.

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