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Gāndhārī

Gāndhārī proper noun: an Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.

Proper noun

Gāndhārī

  1. An Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.
    • The Gāndhārī Dharmapada. We have the remains of two manuscripts of a Dharmapada in Gāndhārī, a Prakrit from Gandhāra (an area of what is now northwest India, Pakistan and a large part of Afghanistan).2010, The Dhammapada, Penguin Classics, →ISBN
    • The largest and most interesting of these fragments (no. 1), with four partial lines of text on each side, is written not in Gāndhārī or even in Sanskritized Gāndhārī like that of the Schøyen fragments, but in more or less standard Sanskrit.2011, Kurt Behrendt, Pia Brancaccio, Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts, →ISBN, page 143

Origin of Gāndhārī

From Sanskrit गान्धारी (gāndhārī).

Questions about Gāndhārī

What does Gāndhārī mean?
Gāndhārī means an Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.
What part of speech is Gāndhārī?
Gāndhārī is a proper noun.

Words near Gāndhārī in the dictionary

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