Vima Takto's empire covered northwestern India and Bactria towards China, where Kushan presence has been asserted in the Tarim Basin.

When a request by Kushan ruler Vima Kadphises ( r. c. 90 – c.

Vima Kadphises was Kanishka's father.

Kanishka was the successor of Vima Kadphises, as demonstrated by an impressive genealogy of the Kushan kings, known as the Rabatak inscription.

It also surmounts the depictions of stupas, on some the coins of the Indo-Parthian king Abdagases of the 1st century, CE and on the coins of some of the Kushan kings such as Vima Kadphises, also of the 1st century CE.

* Vima Takto, ( c. 80 – c. 95 ) alias Soter Megas or " Great Saviour.

* Vima Kadphises ( c. 95 – c. 127 ) the first great Kushan emperor

" Further notes on the Bactrian inscription of Rabatak, with an Appendix on the names of Kujula Kadphises and Vima Taktu in Chinese.

Coin of Vima Kadphises.

Left, monogram of Vima Kadphises.

Kharoshthi legend: MAHARAJASA RAJADIRAJASA SARVALOGA ISVARASA MAHISVARASA VIMA KATHPHISASA TRADARA " The Great king, the king of kings, lord of the World, the Mahisvara ( lord of the earth ), Vima Kathphisa, the defender.

Vima Kadphises ( Kushan language: Οοημο Καδφισης, Ancient Chinese: 阎膏珍 ) was a Kushan emperor from around 90 – 100 CE.

As detailed by the Rabatak inscription, he was the son of Vima Takto and the father of Kanishka.

Vima Kadphises added to the Kushan territory by his expansion in Afghanistan and north-west India.

The usage of gold testifies to the prosperity of the Kushan Empire from the time of Vima, being the center of trade between the Han Dynasty of China ( where Vima was known as 阎膏珍 ), Central Asia and Alexandria and Antioch in the West.

Roman history relates the visit of ambassadors from the Indian kings to the court of Trajan ( 98 – 117 CE ), bearing presents and letters in Greek, which were sent either by Vima Kadphises or his son Kanishka.

The connection of Vima Kadphises with other Kushan rulers is described in the Rabatak inscription, which was written by Kanishka.

Image: Plate XX Vima Kadphises. jpg | Vima in heavy coat, sitting cross-legged on a low couch.

As a Christian, I know I do not stand where Beckett stands, but I do see much of what he sees.

You feel where he is and what he sees, and at night you feel when he is asleep or with the other woman, the one that never could love him the way you do, the one who got him because she didn't particularly give a damn whether she got him or didn't.

Daria is a sarcastic, vaguely alt-rockerish, nerdy girl who attends Highland High with Beavis and Butt-Head and she is one of the few people who sees the two for what they truly are.

That is, when one sees these things for what they are, the idea of forming positions on such metaphysical questions simply does not occ.

However, what one sees as complex and what one sees as simple is relative and changes with time.

A society of artisans promotes the distributist ideal of the unification of capital, ownership, and production rather than what distributism sees as an alienation of man from work.

The Catholic Church sees as the main basis for this belief the words of Jesus himself at his Last Supper: the Synoptic Gospels (; ; ) and Saint Paul's recount that in that context Jesus said of what to all appearances were bread and wine: " This is my body … this is my blood.

The Galatians appear to have been receptive to the teaching of these newcomers, and the epistle is Paul's response to what he sees as their willingness to turn from his teaching.

There is thus an ironic contrast between Paul's own temporal imprisonment and Philemon's temporal freedom ( and mastery over Onesimus ), balanced by the inversion of that relationship in what Paul sees as his own spiritual authority over Philemon and Philemon's spiritual subservience to Paul, who is claiming that Onesimus – temporally, a slave – is, spiritually speaking, not simply equal to his master but a brother of his.

The term Sileni-especially when juxtaposed with the character of Alcibiades-can therefore be understood as an evocation of the notion that something on the inside is more expressive of a person's character than what one sees on the outside.

As it is a new member of the Agile family, there is not enough data to prove its usability, however it claims to be an answer to what it sees as XP's imperfections.

All this hardly concerned European cinema, where those few reverse-angle cuts used were mostly between a watcher and what he sees from his Point of View, both being filmed in a fairly distant shot.

Paul wants to bring them back to what he sees as correct doctrine, stating that God has given him the opportunity to be a " skilled master builder " to lay the foundation and let others build upon it ( 1 Cor 3: 10 ).

The first third of the film is shot from the protagonist's point of view, with the camera seeing what he sees.

Economically he sees no harm whatever in the private possession of what the individual produces by his own labor, but only so much and no more.

" War on the State: Stirner and Deleuze's Anarchism " and " Empiricism, pluralism, and politics in Deleuze and Stirner " discusses what he sees are similarities between Stirner's thought and that of Gilles Deleuze.

Libertarian socialism is opposed to all coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of government and opposes what it sees as the coercive social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor.

He sees Christ as the new Adam, who systematically undoes what Adam did: thus, where Adam was disobedient concerning God's edict concerning the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Christ was obedient even to death on the wood of a tree.

Þrymr sees Loki, and asks what could be amiss among the Æsir and the Elves ; why is Loki alone in the Jötunheimr?

Therefore, looking at an image of oneself with the front / back axis flipped is the same as looking at an image with the left / right axis flipped and the whole figure rotated 180 degrees about the vertical axis, which is exactly what one sees when standing in front of a mirror.

Reeve outlines what he sees as a lengthy cover-up by German authorities to hide the truth.

Though he mentions that he does enjoy and recognize what is pleasant, he sees them of no utilization in terms of governing, or of the benefit of common people.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

The observer of television or other products for a mass audience has only a permit to be, like the models he sees, even more like everybody else.

For one thing, the driver usually sees less and has less fun than his passengers since it becomes pretty necessary for him to keep at least one eye on the road.

One sees that this happens because the null space of Af has dimension 1 only.

Whenever a congregation really sees itself as a unit in the universal Church, in vital relation with the whole Body of Christ and participating in His mission to the world, a necessary foundation-stone of the ecumenical movement has been laid.

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Ayckbourn has frequently said he sees aspects of himself in all his characters.

When the dragon sees that the cup has been stolen, it leaves its cave in a rage, burning everything in sight.

Nehemiah sees that the Jewish nobles are oppressing the poor, and forces the cancellation of all debt and mortgages ; while previous governors have been corrupt and oppressive, he has been righteous and just.

* The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel is transported to Jerusalem and sees a new commonwealth centered around a new Temple to which God's glory has returned ( Ezekiel 40-48 )

Later, Macbeth in his lust for power sees Banquo as a threat and has him murdered ; Banquo's son, Fleance, escapes.

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However, she has also commented in interviews that, although it appears they do not spend much time together, it is simply that nobody sees him.

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Isaac Watts has been called " the father of English hymnody ," but Erik Routley sees him more as " the liberator of English hymnody ," because his hymns, and hymns like them, moved worshipers beyond singing only Old Testament psalms, inspiring congregations and revitalizing worship.

prelest, Gr. plani )— the antonym of sobriety — in which a person believes himself or herself to be a saint, has hallucinations in which he or she ' sees ' angels, Christ, etc.

The legacy of Marx's thought has become contested between numerous tendencies, each of which sees itself as Marx's most accurate interpreter.

Superman first ' sees ' Luthor in a cave which Lupo has gone into to contact him.

Though Superman defeats it, he sees that shock has placed Lois in a coma.

Howard Felperin argues that the play has a more complex attitude toward " orthodox Christian tragedy " than is often admitted ; he sees a kinship between the play and the tyrant plays within the medieval liturgical drama.

While the entire metaplot has always been meant to be altered as each play group sees fit, Ascension provided multiple possible endings, with none of them being definitive ( though one was meant to resolve the metaplot ).

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