Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
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found: Work cat.: Sen Gupta, N. Cultural history of Kapisanand Gandhara, 1984.
found: Dey. Geographical dict. of ancient and mediaeval India, 1971.
found: Lippincott.
found: Web. geog.
found: Random House.
found: Britannica Micro.
found: Mansingh, S. Historical dict. of India, c1996:p. 141 (Gandhara. An area in the Upper Indus valley on the northwestern area of the subcontinent, now lying within the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan)
found: India 1990, c1990:p. 39 ("Gandhara art ... flourished for ten centuries between 3rd century BC and 7th century AD, in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Wset Punjab.")
found: Acad. Amer. encyc.(Gandhara. Gandhara was a semiindependent kingdom that flourished from the 3d century BC to the 5th century AD in what is now northern Pakistan. It extended from present-day Rawalpindi through the Peshawar Valley to Kabul.)
found: Web. geog.(Gandhara. Region, NW Pakistan and part of E Afghanistan--loosely so called from about 6th cent. B.C. to 5th cent. A.D.)
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1987-03-23: new
2000-09-05: revised
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