Gandhāra (kingdom)
Ancient kingdom in the north-western South Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Iron Age kingdom proper. For the historical region, see Gandhara. For the mythological kingdom in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, see Gandhara Kingdom.
Gandhāra (Sanskrit: गन्धार) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of northwestern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The inhabitants of Gandhāra were called the Gāndhārīs.
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Gandhāra | |||||||
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c. 1200 BCE–c. 535 BCE | |||||||
Capital | Takṣaśila Puṣkalāvatī | ||||||
Common languages | Prakrits | ||||||
Religion | Historical Vedic religion Jainism Buddhism | ||||||
Demonym(s) | Gāndhārī | ||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||
• c. 700 BCE | Nagnajit | ||||||
• c. 550 BCE | Pukkusāti | ||||||
Historical era | Iron Age India | ||||||
• Established | c. 1200 BCE | ||||||
• Conquered by the Achaemenid Empire | c. 535 BCE | ||||||
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Today part of | Pakistan |
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