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- Gandhara_Kingdom abstract "Gandhāra (Pashto: ګندارا, Urdu: گندھارا, Avestan: Vaēkərəta, Sanskrit: गन्धार) was an ancient kingdom of Peshawar extending to the Swat valley, and potohar plateau regions of Pakistan as well as the Jalalabad district of northeastern Afghanistan, is a kingdom in the epic Mahabharata. The epic Ramayana also mentions it as a western kingdom. Gandhara prince Shakuni was the root of all the conspiracies of Duryodhana against the Pandavas, which finally resulted in the Kurukshetra War. Shakuni's sister was the wife of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra and was known as Gandhari. Gandhara was in modern Pakistan. Puskalavati, Takshasila (Taxila) and Purushapura (Peshawar) were cities in this Gandhara kingdom. Takshasila was founded by Raghava Rama's brother Bharata. Bharata's descendants ruled this kingdom afterwards. During epic period it was ruled by Shakuni's father Suvala, Shakuni and Shakuni's son. Arjuna defeated Shakuni's son during his post-war military campaign for Yudhishthira's Aswamedha Yagna.Janamejaya, a Kuru king in Arjuna's line, conquered Takshasila, probably then ruled by the Naga Takshaka. He conducted a massacre called Sarpa Satra meaning the slaughter of the snakes, in which the Naga race was nearly exterminated. This massacre was stopped by a Brahmin named Astika, whose mother was a Naga. Nagas were considered as a super human tribe, in Puranas. Naga literally means a Serpent or a serpent-god. The Nagas could be a group of people who inhabited India during epic periods who worshiped snakes.It is speculated that another super human tribe called the Gandharvas were originally inhabitants of the Gandhara kingdom. Gandharvas were well versed in music and art. This explains why there is much Gandhara influence in Indian Classical Music. Gandhara form of sculpturing is also famous (very close to Greek sculpturing).The Yadava chief Bala Rama saw many Gandharva settlements on the banks of Saraswati River, not far from Gandhara, during his pilgrimage over Saraswati river basin. The Gandharva Kali and Dwapara, probably were princes from Gandhara. The last two Yugas (prehistoric periods) were named after them. Kuru King Dhritarashtra's wife was from Gandhara (a Gandharvi) well known by the name Gandhari. There was a Gandhrava also by the name Dhritarashtra. (See Gandharva Kingdom).".
- Gandhara_Kingdom dissolutionYear "-0535".
- Gandhara_Kingdom foundingYear "-1500".
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- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageRevisionID "704871102".
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Abhimanyu.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Afghanistan.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greek_art.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Andhra_in_Indian_epic_literature.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Aratta.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Arjuna.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Ashvamedha.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Avestan.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Bahlikas.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Balarama.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Bharata_(Ramayana).
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Bhishma.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Brahmana.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Brahmin.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:16th-century_BC_establishments_in_Asia.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_history_of_Afghanistan.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:Gandhara.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Bengal.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Pakistan.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_West_Bengal.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:Kingdoms_in_the_Mahabharata.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Category:Kingdoms_in_the_Ramayana.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Dhritarashtra.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Draupadi.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Duryodhana.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Gandhara.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Gandhara_grave_culture.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Gandhari_(character).
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- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Ikshvaku_dynasty.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Indian_classical_music.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Jalalabad.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Janamejaya.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Karna.
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- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Pakistan.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Pandava.
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- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Puranas.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Pushkalavati.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Rajasuya.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Rama.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Ramayana.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Sahadeva.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Sarasvati_River.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Sauvira_Kingdom.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Shakuni.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Sindhu_Kingdom.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Snake.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Swat_River.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Takshaka.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Taxila.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Trigarta_Kingdom.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Uluka.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Vedas.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Vyasa.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Yadu.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Yudhishthira.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Yuga.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLink Āstika_and_nāstika.
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gandhara Kingdom".
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gandhara".
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gandharas".
- Gandhara_Kingdom wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gandharvas".
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- Gandhara_Kingdom commonName "Gandhara".
- Gandhara_Kingdom continent "Asia".
- Gandhara_Kingdom conventionalLongName "Gandhara".
- Gandhara_Kingdom country "Pakistan".
- Gandhara_Kingdom era "Ancient Era".
- Gandhara_Kingdom flagS "Standard of Cyrus the Great .svg".
- Gandhara_Kingdom governmentType "Monarchy".
- Gandhara_Kingdom imageMap "Gandhara.JPG".
- Gandhara_Kingdom imageMapCaption "Approximate boundaries of the Gandharan Empire, in northernwestern Pakistan, and northeast Afghanistan.".
- Gandhara_Kingdom region "South Asia".
- Gandhara_Kingdom s "Achaemenid Empire".
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