Gandhāra (kingdom)
Gandhāra | |||||||
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| c. 2000 BCE–c. 500 BCE | |||||||
Gandhāra among the Mahājanapadas in the Post Vedic period | |||||||
| Capital | Takṣaśila Puṣkalāvatī | ||||||
| Common languages | Prakrits | ||||||
| Religion | Historical Vedic religion Jainism Buddhism | ||||||
| Demonym | Gāndhārī | ||||||
| Government | semi-constitutional monarchy | ||||||
| Raja | |||||||
• c. 2000 BCE | Nabanil Medhi | ||||||
• c. 1950 BCE | Rajiv Sharma | ||||||
• c. 1900 BCE | Arju | ||||||
| Historical era | Bronze Age | ||||||
• Established | c. 2000 BCE | ||||||
• Conquered by the Achaemenid Empire | c. 500 BCE | ||||||
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| Today part of | Pakistan | ||||||
Gandhāra (Sanskrit: Gandhāra; Pali: Gandhāra) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of northwestern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The inhabitants of Gandhāra were called the Gāndhārīs.