Gandhara

3 weeks ago - The history of Gandhara originates with the Gandhara grave culture, characterized by a distinctive burial practice. During the Vedic period Gandhara gained recognition as one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas, or 'great realms', within South Asia playing a role in the Kurukshetra War.

July 20, 1998 - Gandhara art, style of Buddhist visual art that developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between the 1st century bce and the 7th century ce. The style, of Greco-Roman origin, seems to have flourished largely during the Kushan dynasty and was contemporaneous with an

The heart of Gandhara, however, was always the Peshawar valley. The kingdom was ruled from capitals at Pushkalavati (Charsadda), Taxila, Purushapura (Peshawar) and in its final days from Udabhandapura (Hund) on the Indus. Since the Vedic times, the Gandhāri people settled on the banks of Kabul ...

Synthesis of foreign styles with Indian forms is typical of the multi-ethnic character of Gandharan taste.

The Bhagavan as before addressed him by his name and gotra (lineage) and mentioned his doubt even before Vayubhuti said anything, "O Gautam Vayubhuti; Your doubt is whether this body itself is the soul or the soul is different from the body? This doubt arises from two different Vedic texts.

3 weeks ago - By the later 6th century BCE, the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus, soon after his conquests of Media, Lydia, and Babylonia, marched into Gandhara and annexed it into his empire.

July 20, 1998 - Gandhara, historical region in what is now northwestern Pakistan, corresponding to the Vale of Peshawar and having extensions into the lower valleys of the Kābul and Swāt rivers. In ancient times Gandhara was a trade crossroads and cultural meeting place between India, Central Asia, and the Middle

February 16, 2024 - Gandhari, a central figure in the Mahabharata, was the queen of Hastinapura and the wife of King Dhritarashtra. Born in the kingdom of Gandhara, she…

June 26, 2015 - The Gandhara Civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE to the beginning of the 2nd millennium CE. Although multiple major powers...

"The ancient kingdom of Gandhara (today's Afghanistan and Pakistan) is the source of the oldest Buddhist manuscripts in the world, as well as the oldest manuscripts from South Asia in existence. Acquired in 2003, the Library's Gandhara scroll roughly dates between the first century BCE and ...

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Ancient Gandhara, located in the rugged foothills of the Himalayas in what is today northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, was for centuries a thriving center of trade along the Silk Road linking China, South Asia, and the Mediterranean. Gandhara's strategic position and wealth attracted ...

November 26, 2024 - The term gandharva is present in Vedic sources (including in the Rigveda) as a singular deity.

June 20, 2014 - * The Indus Script, Vedic Religion And World History * ... R. gvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities ... Gandhara and Formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian Canons.

December 8, 2022 - In this important article Vedic Management teacher U. Mahesh Prabhu along with renowned Vedic scholar Dr David Frawley explain why the understanding of the ...

October 3, 2023 - The Gandhara region is broadly a triangular piece of rocky land surrounded by mountains, located today across three countries; southern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent. The region is referenced in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda, later Vedic ...

The region centered around the ... range.Gandhara's existence is attested since the time of the Rigveda (c. 1500 – c. 1200 BCE), as well as the Zoroastrian Avesta, which mentions it as Vaēkərəta, the sixth most beautiful place on earth created by Ahura Mazda. It was one of the 16 Mahajanapadas of Vedic ...

Previous (Gandhara) Next (Gandhinagar) Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male nature dieties that appear in both Hindu, Buddhist, and sometimes even Jain mythology. In all three traditions, the gandharvas ...

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