↑Baloch, Sikandar Khan (2004). In the Wonderland of Asia, Gilgit & Baltistan (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Sang-e-Meel Publications. p. 124. ISBN9789693516142. Within the next decade, emerged the great kingdom of Gandhara under the great Kushan king Kaniskha (125-160 AD). The seat of his central government was Purushpura which is today known as Peshawar.
↑Chaurasia, Radhey Shyam (2002). History of Ancient India: Earliest Times to 1000 A.D. (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 148. ISBN9788126900275. Kanishka's coins have been found as far as Ghaznipur and Gorakhpur. These point to the wide extent of his Indian dominion which stretched from Gandhara to Banaras. The eastern portion of this empire was governed by Mahakshatrapa and a Kshatrapa while the northern portion by military governors. He fixed his capital at Purushpura or Peshawar which he adorned with many noble buildings.
↑The Listener, Volume 39 (ภาษาอังกฤษ). British Broadcasting Corporation. 1948. p. 27. Of course the Kushan capital established by Kanishka in India was at Purushpura — Peshawar — not Mathura, where the Saka satraps had held sway and probably continued under the overlordship of the Kushans.
↑Jones, Barry (2019). Dictionary of World Biography: Sixth edition (ภาษาอังกฤษ). ANU Press. p. 469. ISBN978-1-76046-287-1. His empire extended to Afghanistan, parts of Iran and northern India-Pakistan, and his capital Purushpura is the modern Peshawar, where he built an enormous stupa. He sent Buddhist missionaries to China.
↑Dept, North-West Frontier Province (Pakistan) Information (1955). Yearbook (ภาษาอังกฤษ). เก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 7 March 2022. สืบค้นเมื่อ 7 November 2020.
↑Jaffar, S. M. (1952). An Introduction to Peshawar (ภาษาอังกฤษ). S.M.S. Khan. The old name Purushapura is said to have been derived from Purush, a Raja whose seat of government it is stated to have been.
↑The North-West Frontier Province Year Book (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Government of Pakistan. 1954. p. 47. The old name Purushpura is said to have been derived from Purush, after a Raja whose seat of government it is stated to have been.
↑Cotton, James Sutherland; Burn, Sir Richard; Meyer, Sir William Stevenson (1909). Imperial Gazetteer of India (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Clarendon Press. p. 463. Purushapura, seat of king Purush, Peshawar probably derived from, xx. 124.
↑Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Volume 7 (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Wayne State University Press. 1994. p. 55. As the Fu-lou-sha of Fa-hsien is also identifiable as Peshawar, the fifth-century Chinese transcription of Purushapura can clearly be equated with the seventh-century Pu-lu-sha, the equivalent syllables for pu-lo, representing the Sanskrit pura ...
↑"Ancient Peshawar:Historical Review of Some of its Socio-Religious and Cultural Aspects". www.asc-centralasia.edu.pk. คลังข้อมูลเก่าเก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 19 July 2019. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2019-07-19. The famous Muslim historian and geographer al-Masudi (871–957 AD), also known as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs' for he wrote a 30-volume history of the world, spelt Peshawar as Pershadwar. Purshawar or Purushavar: Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni (973–1048 AD), the Arab geographer and historian records two variants for Peshawar; Purshawar and Purushavar.
↑Dani, Ahmad Hasan (1995). Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier (ภาษาอังกฤษ). Sang-e-Meel Publications. ISBN9789693505542. Peshawar has long been known as "the Fountier—town." Standing right at the mout of the world-famous Khyber Pass, it holds the key to the gateway of the subcontinent of Pakistan and India.