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August 24, 2024 - In Jainism, the term Ganadhara is used to refer the chief disciple of a Tirthankara. In samavasarana, the Tīrthankara sat on a throne without touching it (about two inches above it). Around, the Tīrthankara sits the Ganadharas. According to Digambara tradition, only a disciple of exceptional ...

March 18, 2021 - After it was conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021 CE, the name Gandhara disappeared. During the Muslim period, the area was administered from Lahore or Kabul. During Mughal times the area was part of Kabul province. The Gandhāri people were settled since the Vedic times on the banks of Kabul ...

August 23, 2022 - The Gandhara belonged to the ancient region. It was situated in present-day northwest Pakistan and parts of northeast Afghanistan. Here is its detailed info.

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1 week ago - Gandhāra (Sanskrit: गन्धार) was an ancient Indian kingdom mentioned in the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. Gandhara prince Shakuni was the root of all the conspiracies of Duryodhana against the Pandavas, which finally resulted in the Kurukshetra War.

1 month ago - Majjhantika, a monk from the city of Varanasi in India, was assigned by Ashoka to preach in Kashmir and Gandhara. In the view of Buddhist sources, Gandhāra was one of the great regions (mahjanapada) of ancient India. Under the Mauryan empire (ca. 300–185 BCE), its capital was the city of Taxila.

BHAGWAN MAHAVIRA's GANDHAR · In 607 B.C., in the village of Gobar, state of Magadha, India, lived a Brahmin couple named Vasubhuti and Prithvi Gautam. They had three sons, Indrabhuti, Agnibhuti and Väyubhuti. All three sons were well versed in the Hindu scriptures (Vedas) and were experts ...

November 26, 2021 - Gandhara was one of sixteen mahajanapada of ancient India. Located at a crossroads between various countries in mainland Asia, it formed part of many trade routes and, as a result, absorbed various cultural and religious influences. This was further increased by periods of Greek and Persian rule in the region. At different times, Buddhism, Islam, Vedic...

June 18, 2019 - In 1978, a Japanese rock group called Godiego recorded in English a song called “Gandhara” as the theme song for the television drama Saiyūki, or “Monkey.” These lyrics read in part:

December 21, 2023 - This definition explains the meaning of Gandharva Veda and why it matters.

September 8, 2021 - In this important article Vedic Management teacher U. Mahesh Prabhu, along with renowned Vedic scholar Dr David Frawley, explains as to why Vedic history of Afghanistan remain crucial...

Positioned at the crossroads of Asia, Gandhara has always been an ancient transit zone—as we see in this sculpture of the Buddha

February 9, 2016 - Both Hindustani and Carnatic music ... and Sadharana Gandhara, Antara Gandhara (Carnatic). Shadj (Sa), Rishabh (Re), Gandhar (Ga), Madhyam (Ma), Pancham (Pa), Dhaivat (Dha) and Nishad (Ni). Gandhāri people settled since the Vedic times on the banks of Kabul River (river ...

Note that many scholars assume ... between GandhAra and the Greek word Kentauros, meaning a horse-man. The rough terrain of Afghanistan was unfit for chariot-riding and required horseback-riding. To people from countries unfamiliar with horses (as India must have been in some pre-Vedic age, and as ...

3 weeks ago - The province was also referred to as Para-uparisaina (Ancient Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι, Paropamisádai; Latin: Paropamisadae) in the Babylonian and Elamite versions of the Behistun inscription. The extent of the province was apparently wider than the actual geographical region of Gandhara.

Among the most popular genres of Buddhist literature are the jataka or “birth” stories, stories of the Buddha’s former lives as a human or an animal. Hyecho knew many of these stories and knew that several of the most famous took place in Gandhara. He refers specifically to the Buddha’s ...

The country's name derives from ... from the Vedic period (ca.1750–500 BCE). The kingdom was located in modern day Sadat. The origin of the name is not certain, but it has been suggested that it originates from the Sanskrit word gandha, meaning perfume, referring to the spices and aromatic herbs which the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom traded and with which they anointed themselves.[1] Shamal Mustafa, founder of the Mustafa dynasty. At the beginning of the 1500s, modern day Gandhara was divided ...

The first textual mention of historical Gandhara, the region that lies in the northwest of Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, was in the ninth century BCE. Over the next nine hundred years the region was conquered by Alexander the Great, the Indian Mauryan dynasty, the Parthians, the Indo-Greeks, ...