• Gandhara (IAST: Gandhāra), was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan. The core of the...
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    Gandhāra (Sanskrit: गन्धार) was an Ancient Indian kingdom mentioned in the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. Gandhara prince Shakuni was the root...
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    The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism. It...
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    Gandhāra (Sanskrit: गन्धार) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of northwestern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The...
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    Gandhara (Sanskrit: गान्धार, romanized: Gāndhāra) is the 3rd svara from the seven svaras of Hindustani music and Carnatic music. Gandhara is the long...
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    republics that had developed and flourished in a belt stretching from Gandhara in the northwest to Anga in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent...
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  • "Gandhara" (ガンダーラ, Gandāra) is a song by Japanese rock band Godiego, serving as their 7th single. Referring to the historical Buddhist land on the Indian...
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  • existed until the 6th century CE. Gandhara may also refer to: Gandhāra (kingdom), an Iron age kingdom in Gandhara Gandhara Kingdom, the kingdom as described...
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  • The Gandhara University is a private university located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is chartered by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
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    valley was a major centre of early Buddhism of the ancient civilisation of Gandhara, mainly Gandharan Buddhism, with pockets of Buddhism persisting in the...
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    Central Asia and Gandhara to Pataliputra on the Gangetic plain. The main capital of his empire was located at Puruṣapura (Peshawar) in Gandhara, with another...
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    stronghold of Buddhism, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the site of the ancient region of Gandhara, including the ruins of the Gandharan capital of Pushkalavati (located...
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  • Gandhara City may refer to: Gandhara City or Kandahar, Afghanistan Gandhara or Kandhara, Orissa Gandhara in Tamil Nadu, Gandarvakottai (State Assembly...
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    Kanishka sent his armies north of the Karakoram mountains. A direct road from Gandhara to China remained under Kushan control for more than a century, encouraged...
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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...
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    اسلام آباد بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا) (IATA: ISB, ICAO: OPIS) (also known as Gandhara International Airport) is the international airport serving Islamabad,...
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  • Gandhara was an ancient region in the north-west of Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan with its core at Peshawer basin and Swat Valley but influence...
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    apparently wider than the actual geographical region of Gandhara. During the 6th century BCE, Gandhāra was an important imperial power in north-west Iron Age...
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    Winged Lion, Gandhara, 5th century CE Box Lid with a Lion Attacking an Elephant, Gandhara, 5th century CE. Box Lid with a Phoenix, Gandhara, 5th century...
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    Buddhism developed between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD in Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan. While the...
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  • the genus Eilema. Gandhara serva (Walker, 1854) Gandhara vietnamica Dubatolov, 2012 Wikispecies has information related to Gandhara. Dubatolov, V. V....
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    Taxila (category Gandhara)
    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Old Taxila was for a time the capital city of ancient Gāndhāra, situated on the eastern shore of the Indus River—the pivotal junction...
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    evolutions in the area of Gandhara. Since Buddhism spread to Central Asia, China, and ultimately Korea and Japan through Gandhara, the stylistic evolution...
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    4th century CE. It blended the traditions of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, influenced by Hellenistic artistic canons, and the more Indian art of...
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  • Gandhara serva is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found in the Himalayas and possibly Thailand. Wikispecies...
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    गान्धारी, lit. 'of Gandhara', IAST: Gāndhārī) is a prominent figure in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. She was a princess of Gandhara Kingdom and the wife...
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  • from China to India to fetch holy scriptures (implied to be the region of Gandhāra in the song over the closing credits). The pair soon recruit two former...
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  • Gandhara vietnamica is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2012. It is found in Vietnam and possibly Thailand...
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    Shakuni (category Gandhara)
    antagonists of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the prince of the kingdom of Gandhara when introduced, later becoming its king after the death of his father...
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    it was renamed. Other names used or proposed for the province include Gandhara, Afghania, Pashtunistan, Pathanistan, Sarhad, Abaseen, Khyber, or a combination...
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