Gandhāra (kingdom)
Gandhāra | |||||||
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| c. 700 BCE–c. 518 BCE | |||||||
Gandhāra among the Mahājanapadas in the Post Vedic period | |||||||
| Capital | Takṣaśila Puṣkalāvatī | ||||||
| Common languages | Prakrits | ||||||
| Religion | Historical Vedic religion Jainism Buddhism | ||||||
| Demonym(s) | Gāndhārī | ||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||
• c. 700 BCE | Nagnajit | ||||||
• c. 6th/5th cent. BCE | Pukkusāti | ||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age India | ||||||
• Established | c. 700 BCE | ||||||
• Conquered by the Achaemenid Empire | c. 518 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.