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Gandhari is introduced in the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata as the daughter of King Subala, the ruler of the Gandhara kingdom and a descendant of Turvasu (son of Yayati) of the Lunar Dynasty. This region spanned from the Sindhu River to Kabul in Afghanistan. [1] Gandhari is regarded as an incarnation of a goddess named Mati ('intellect'). [5]
Gandhari served as an official language of the Kushan Empire and various central Asian kingdoms, including Khotan and Shanshan. [1] It appears on coins, inscriptions and texts, notably the Gandhāran Buddhist texts.
Gandhari may refer to: Gandhari (Mahabharata), a character in the Indian epic Mahabharata; Gandhari khilla, a hill fort near Bokkalagutta, Telangana, India; Gandhari language, north-western prakrit spoken in Gāndhāra Kharosthi, or Gandhari script; Gandhari people, a tribe attested from the Rigveda and later texts
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Shakuni's sister was the wife of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra and was known as Gandhari after the area of Gandhāra (which is in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan). Puskalavati, Takshasila and Purushapura were cities in this Gandhara kingdom. Takshasila was founded by Rama's brother Bharata. Bharata's descendants ruled this kingdom afterwards.
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 ...
Dushala was the daughter of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, the sister of the Kauravas and the wife of the king of Sindhu, Jaydrath. She was the only daughter of Gandhari from the 101 children. She had a son named Suratha, who succeeded his father, after Jayadratha was killed by Arjuna in the Mahabharata War.
Gandhari.org Catalog and Corpus of all known Kharoṣṭhī (Gāndhārī) texts Indoskript 2.0 , a paleographic database of Brahmi and Kharosthi A Preliminary Study of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscript Paleography by Andrew Glass, University of Washington (2000)