Gandhara

[ guhn-dahr-uh ]

/ gʌnˈdɑr ə /

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noun

an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.

adjective

Also Gan·dha·ran

[guhn-dahr-uhn]. /gʌnˈdɑr ən/. of or relating to Gandhara, its inhabitants, or its art.

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How to use Gandhara in a sentence

With Gandhara's warlike monarch brave Nakula holds his way, Other chiefs with other monarchs where their distant kingdoms lay.
Maha-bharata|Anonymous
Five of stout Gandhara's princes in that fatal combat fell, And a sixth in fear and faintness fled the woeful tale to tell!
Maha-bharata|Anonymous
Going southwards from Gandhara, (the travellers) in four days arrived at the kingdom of Purushapura.
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms|Fa-Hsien
In the north-west was Gandhara, on the banks of the Indus, in the neighbourhood of Peshawar.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 4|Various

But in the later school of sculpture known as Gandhara or Græco-Buddhist he is frequently shown in a full length portrait.
Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3)|Charles Eliot