The Rise of Mahāsena
The Transformation of Skanda-Kārttikeya in North India from the Kuṣāṇa to Gupta Empires
Biographical note
Richard D. Mann, Ph.D. (2003) in Religious Studies, McMaster University, is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Carleton University. He has published on developments in Hinduism during the Kuṣāṇa Empire and on South Asian numismatics.
Readership
All those interested in the history of Hinduism, religious change during Kuṣāṇa and Gupta era South Asia, the intersection of religion and politics, as well as textual and artistic history.
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