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The Gandhāra kingdom of the late Vedic period was located on both sides of the Indus river, and it corresponded to the modern Rawalpindi District of modern-day Pakistani Punjab and Peshawar District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [1] [2] By the 6th century BCE, Gandhāra had expanded to include the valley of Kaśmīra. [3]
Gandhara (IAST: Gandhāra) was an ancient Indo-Aryan [1] civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan. [2] [3] [4] The core of the region of Gandhara was the Peshawar and Swat valleys extending as far east as the Pothohar Plateau in Punjab, though the cultural influence of Greater Gandhara extended westwards into the Kabul valley in Afghanistan, and ...
Gandhāra (Sanskrit: गन्धार) was an ancient Indian kingdom mentioned in the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. Gandhara prince Shakuni was the root of all the conspiracies of Duryodhana against the Pandavas , which finally resulted in the Kurukshetra War .
Gandhāran Buddhism was the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra, which was a major center of Buddhism in the northwestern Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE. [1] [2] Ancient Gandhāra corresponds to modern day north Pakistan, mainly the Peshawar valley and Potohar plateau as well as Afghanistan's Jalalabad.
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra: The British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-97769-0. Salomon, Richard (2006). Patrick Olivelle (ed.). Between the Empires : Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE. Oxford University Press USA. ISBN 978-0-19-977507-1.
The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism.It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara, located in the northwestern fringe of the Indian subcontinent.
The Apracharajas (Gandhari: 𐨀𐨤𐨿𐨪𐨕𐨪𐨗), [1] also known as Avacarajas (Gandhari: 𐨀𐨬𐨕𐨪𐨗), [2] were a local ruling dynasty of Gandhara.The Apracharaja capital, known as Apracapura (also Avacapura), was located in Bajaur, [2] though from numismatic evidence and reliquary inscriptions, it is asserted that their territory encompassed the wider region of Gandhara ...
Gandhāra (kingdom), an Iron age kingdom in Gandhara; Gandhara Kingdom, the kingdom as described in the Hindu epics; Gandhara grave culture, an archaeological culture from the 15–6th centuries BCE; Greco-Buddhist art, also known as Gandhara art; Gandhara University, a university in Pakistan; Gandhara, a genus of moths