Gandhara
Sign in to saveGandhara () was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilisation in the Indian subcontinent located in present-day northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. The core of the region of Gandhara was the Valley of Peshawar, though the cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus River to Taxila and westwards into the Kabul Valley as far as Bamyan, and northwards up to the Karakoram range, including Swat, Bajaur and other valleys.
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Gandhara was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization located in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, centered in the Peshawar Valley. Its cultural influence extended across a wide region including present-day Taxila, the Kabul Valley, and areas as far north as the Karakoram range, making it a significant center of activity in the Indian subcontinent.
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Key facts
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- 964 – 1001
- Former Subdivision.native_name
- Gandhara
- Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Gandhāra
- Former Subdivision.common_name
- Gandhara
- Former Subdivision.subdivision
- Province
- Former Subdivision.era
- Antiquity
- Former Subdivision.capital
- PushkalavatiPurushapuraKapisaTaxilaHund
- Former Subdivision.title_leader
- Raja
- Former Subdivision.leader1
- Pushkarasarin
- Former Subdivision.leader2
- Taxiles
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- Chandragupta Maurya
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- Location of Gandhara in South Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan)
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32 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- History
- Gandhāra grave culture
- Vedic Gandhāra
- Pukkusāti and Achaemenid Gandhāra
- Hellenistic era Gandhāra
- Mauryan Gandhāra
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
- Apracharajas
- Indo-Scythian Kingdom
- Indo-Parthian Kingdom
- Tribes mentioned by Pliny
- Kushan Gandhāra
- Kidarites
- Alchon Huns
- Turk and Hindu Shahis
- Rediscovery
- Culture
- Language
- Religion
- Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Other religions
- Art
- Major cities
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Gandhara () was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilisation in the Indian subcontinent located in present-day northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. The core of the region of Gandhara was the Valley of Peshawar, though the cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus River to Taxila and westwards into the Kabul Valley as far as Bamyan, and northwards up to the Karakoram range, including Swat, Bajaur and other valleys.
The Gandhara tribe, after which it is named, is attested in the Rigveda (c. 1500 – c. 1200 BCE), while the region is mentioned in the Zoroastrian Avesta as Vaēkərəta, the seventh most beautiful place on earth created by Ahura Mazda. Gandhara was one of the 16 Great Realms of the second urbanisation.