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Gandhara
[ guhn-dahr-uh ]
noun
- an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
adjective
- Also Gan·dha·ran [] of or relating to Gandhara, its inhabitants, or its art.
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With Gandhara's warlike monarch brave Nakula holds his way, Other chiefs with other monarchs where their distant kingdoms lay.
Five of stout Gandhara's princes in that fatal combat fell, And a sixth in fear and faintness fled the woeful tale to tell!
Going southwards from Gandhara, (the travellers) in four days arrived at the kingdom of Purushapura.
In the north-west was Gandhara, on the banks of the Indus, in the neighbourhood of Peshawar.
But in the later school of sculpture known as Gandhara or Græco-Buddhist he is frequently shown in a full length portrait.
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