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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] region 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 northwards up to the ...
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]
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The extinct Gandhari language, used by the Gandhara civilization, from circa 1500 BCE, was Dardic in nature. [13] Linguistic evidence has linked Gandhari with some living Dardic languages, particularly Torwali and other Kohistani languages. [14] [15] [16] There is limited evidence that the Kohistani languages are descended from Gandhari.
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 ...
A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra (2000) by Richard Salomon and Andrew Glass Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama -Type Sutras (2001) by Mark Allon and Andrew Glass A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories (2003) by Timothy Lenz, Andrew Glass, and Bhikshu Dharmamitra
Gandhari served as an official language of the Kushan Empire and various central Asian kingdoms, ... [26] were discovered in eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan.