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The Gandhara grave culture of present-day Pakistan is known by its "protohistoric graves", which were spread mainly in the middle Swat River valley and named the Swat Protohistoric Graveyards Complex, dated in that region to c. 1200 –800 BCE. [1]
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 ...
Gandhara Satrapy was established in the general region of the old Gandhara grave culture, in what is today Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. During Achaemenid rule, the Kharosthi alphabet, derived from the one used for Aramaic (the official language of Achaemenids), developed here and remained the national script of Gandhara until 200 CE.
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.
[1] [2] By the 6th century BCE, Gandhāra had expanded to include the valley of Kaśmīra. [ 3 ] The capitals of Gandhāra were Takṣaśila ( Pāli : Takkasilā ; Ancient Greek : Ταξιλα Taxila ), and Puṣkalāvatī ( Prakrit languages : Pukkalāoti ; Ancient Greek : Πευκελαωτις , romanized : Peukelaōtis ) or Puṣkarāvatī ...
In samavasarana, the Tīrthankara sat on a throne without touching it (about two inches above it). [1] Around, the Tīrthankara sits the Ganadharas . [ 2 ] According to Digambara tradition, only a disciple of exceptional brilliance and accomplishment ( riddhi ) is able to fully assimilate, without doubt, delusion, or misapprehension, the ...
Culture: Late Vedic Period: Gandhara grave culture (Brahmin ideology) [b] • early Upanishads • Painted Grey Ware culture (Kshatriya/Shramanic culture) [c] • Northern Black Polished Ware: 800-600 BCE: Gandhara: Kuru-Pancala: Kosala-Videha: Culture: Late Vedic Period Mahajanapada: Gandhara grave culture (Brahmin ideology) [d] • early ...
Simple English; اردو; Edit links ... People from Gandhara (1 C, 8 P) T. Taxila Tehsil (1 C, ... Gandhara grave culture; A. Ancient scripts of the Indian ...