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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 ...
A map of the Gandharan region, Pakistan - Peshawar Valley & Pothohar Plateau, all the most significant sites dotted. ... Uploaded a work by Dirk Fabian from https ...
During the 6th century BCE, Gandhāra was an important imperial power in north-west Iron Age South Asia, with the valley of Kaśmīra being part of the kingdom, [3] while the other states of the Punjab region, such as the Kekayas, Madrakas, Uśīnaras, and Shivis being under Gāndhārī suzerainty.
The Buddhas of Bamiyan, an example of late Gandhāran Buddhist monumental sculpture. Topographic map of the region showing major Gandhāran and Bactrian sites The Dharmarajika Stupa and ruins of surrounding monasteries Kushan territories (full line) and maximum extent of Kushan dominions under Kanishka the Great (dotted line), which saw the height of Gandhāran Buddhist expansion.
It mainly included the Kabul region, Gandhara and the northern regions such as Swat and Chitral. [ 13 ] The nations who composed the Paropamisadae are recorded as the Cabolitae ( Καβολῖται ) in the north near modern Kabul ; the Parsii (Πάρσιοι) in the northwest, the Ambautae ( Ἀμβαῦται ) in the east and the Par(g ...
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Pushkalavati, [a] was the capital of the ancient region of Gāndhāra, situated in present day's Pakistan. [1] Its ruins are located on the outskirts of the modern city of Charsadda, in Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 35-42 kilometres northeast of Peshawar, [2] at the banks of Jindi River, [3] near the junction of Swat River with Kabul River.
Gandāra, or Gadāra in Achaemenid inscriptions (Old Persian cuneiform: 𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼, Gadāra, also transliterated as Gaⁿdāra since the nasal "n" before consonants was omitted in the Old Persian script, and simplified as Gandāra or sometimes Gandara) [1] was one of the easternmost provinces of the Achaemenid Empire in South Asia, following the Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley.