Gandhara

[ guhn-dahr-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.

adjective

1. Also Gan·dha·ran [] of or relating to Gandhara, its inhabitants, or its art.

Example Sentences

With Gandhara's warlike monarch brave Nakula holds his way, Other chiefs with other monarchs where their distant kingdoms lay.

From Project Gutenberg

Five of stout Gandhara's princes in that fatal combat fell, And a sixth in fear and faintness fled the woeful tale to tell!

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Going southwards from Gandhara, (the travellers) in four days arrived at the kingdom of Purushapura.

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In the north-west was Gandhara, on the banks of the Indus, in the neighbourhood of Peshawar.

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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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