Kanishka stupa
The Kanishka stupa is a historic stupa at Peshawar, to the Kushan ruler Kanishka erected about 100 AD. The building is known for excavations and by reports of Chinese pilgrims.
After the excavations at the former place Shah- Ji -Ki- Dheri, now part of the town, the platform of the stupa had a diameter of 87 m. She was richly decorated. The Chinese pilgrim report a height 591-689 feet, which corresponds to 180 to 210 meters. According to the Chinese pilgrim Faxian the building was only 120 feet high.
Three Chinese pilgrims have left descriptions of the building, Faxian traveled between 399-412. Songyun visited the Stupa 512 and Xuanzang to 630 Songyun describes the stupa as the lower part of the building made of stone, a stack of wood, richly decorated and with a staircase and a gilded iron tip. The construction is repeatedly struck by lightning, but was renovated again and again. The Arab historian and writer Al -Biruni saw the construction in the 11th century. The building was destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni.
British excavations under the direction of David Brainerd Spooner took place in 1908 and 1909, while the bronze Kanishka reliquary was found which bears an inscription in Kharoshthi and as a builder a certain Agisala, which probably represents the Greek name Agesilaus calls. From the name it has been suggested that it was a Greek. The reading and interpretation of the inscription is controversial and may even have a name to call. In the tin three bone fragments have been found that are to belong to the Buddha. The bone relic of the Buddha is now in a pagoda on a hill overlooking the central Burmese city of Mandalay.