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Gandhara

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gandhara , historic region of India, now in NW Pakistan. Situated astride the middle Indus River, the region had Taxila and Peshawar as its chief cities. It was originally a province of the Persian Empire and was reached (327 BC) by Alexander the Great. The region passed to Chandragupta, founder of the Maurya empire, in the late 4th cent. BC, and under Asoka was converted (mid-3d cent.) to Buddhism. It was part of Bactria from the late 3d cent. to the 1st cent. BC Under the Kushan dynasty (1st cent.-3d cent. AD), and especially under Kanishka , Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture,... Read more
Gandhara art
...contemporaneous with Mathura art . The Gandhara region had earlier been a site of much...rulers maintained contact with Rome; the Gandhara school incorporated motifs and techniques...gilded. Central Asian arts ; Kushan art . Gandhara art Gandhara art Gandhara art Read more
Kanishka
, fl. c.AD 120, king of Gandhara . He was the most powerful and renowned ruler of the Kushan dynasty...of Buddhism, he built many Buddhist monuments, helped found the Gandharan school of sculpture, and encouraged the spread of Buddhism to... Read more

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