Definitions for Gandhara

Gandhara Gan·dha·ra

Spelling: [guhn-dahr-uh]
IPA: /gʌnˈdɑr ə/

Gandhara is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in Gandhara (aaadghnr).

Definitions for Gandhara

noun

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

adjective

  1. Also, Gandharan [guhn-dahr-uh n] /gʌnˈdɑr ən/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Gandhara, its inhabitants, or its art.

Examples for Gandhara

The same was the case in Udyana, and in Gandhara the Hinayanists were still in the majority.

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

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

But in the later school of sculpture known as Gandhara or Græco-Buddhist he is frequently shown in a full length portrait.

The influence of Gandhara is plain in architecture, sculpture, and painting.

No doubt the Greek artists who came to Gandhara were loath to relinquish a familiar theme.

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

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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