Gandhara : A Forgotten History 

True...Varman Kingdom or Kamrupa Kingdom is highly underrated even after having a large boundary covering northeast , bangladesh n having great political relations with other ancient kings

@@PHOENIX-ff5fl Can you elaborate on the political relations? I just recently started learning about them so idk much

@@krishbohra5536 like king Bhaskarvarman( The last king of Varman) formed alliance with Harshavardhan to fight against Shashanka ( king of bengal region) . Even more than that Harsha and Bhaskarvarman were good friends. As Harshvardhan used to invite Bhaskarvarman as guest in major events.

@@krishbohra5536 he was a very powerful King during his period but after his death Varman Empire also deceased . Because Bhaskarvarman didn't married anyone and remain celibate for his life time. This is the reason why he is also known as Kumar Bhaskarvarman.

​​@@PHOENIX-ff5fl most Indian kings and Empires are highly underrated except few. They are highly highly underrated.

THIS IS PAKISTAN NOT INDUA

Maybe the territory of Gandhara spread across a large area, and modern-day Khandhara was also included in it. That's why the people of that region call it Khandhar.

@@tattvamashi city of kandhara and it's surrounding areas was called Arachosia or Haraxvaiti, named after the haravutai river

Is lt like mathura. Delhi was part of mathura in part?? Am I wrong? Mathura used to be very large.

*Kandahar

​@@ayushkumarsingh3029 U r right brother... Persians cant pronounce S sound & it replaced with H sound. So the river originally named Saraswati became Haraoti, Sayaru became Harayu ( modern name Hari River gave the city its name Herat), Sindhu became Hindu & so on.

This is very interesting! As I just started learning Sanskrit and Hindi, I am curious: was Gandhari (or Prakit) related to Sanskrit?

Yes.... actually Magadhi Prakrit or Eastern Prakrit which was used for writing texts of Buddhism is. Majority of languages except Dravidian languages are descendants from Magadhi Prakrit. Later there were many forms of Prakrit like shaursheni Prakrit or western Prakrit and many more.​ You can study history of Bihar and Bengal for more understanding. @PierCollier

@@PierCollier Gandhari and all Prakrits are considered Middle Indo-Aryan languages, while Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language. This means that Sanskrit is older. However it is disputed whether Vedic Sanskrit is a direct ancestor of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, or was it some sister language of Sanskrit.

​@yashagrawal88 😂😂😂

Thanks for this information 👏👏🙏

There's certainly some influence, I would do a video on the Gandharan art soon. Thanks for the recommendation.

@@JayVardhanSingh I look forward to it. Keep up the good work. You have a detached and informed approach from which I am learning a lot. Thank you.

no, the name probably derived from Alexandria. The city of Kandahar was known as Alexandria of Arachosia.

@@JayVardhanSingh yes even in kashmir people call alexander as sikandar to this day

First learn Sanskrit

@@JayVardhanSingh thankyou sir.

Thanks and for the source read the description. You can find references mentioned in the description of every videos.

Yeah gotcha thanks

Yes, it's true.

Mansehra

@@Raval_rushi what do you want to say?

But the evidence does not support this. Secondly the whole region Awadh - Baghelkhand - Chhattisgarh was Kosala.

@@yashagrawal88 if I am not wrong, Baghelkhand is Nishada kingdom (of Nala, h/o Damayanti). But there are other examples of different areas with same name _ like Kamboja in Afghanistan and Kamboja in Kyrghyzsthan, Bahlika in Punjab and Bahlika in Balkh, Kuru in Hastinapura and Uttara Kuru (north of Himalaya).

​@@Vath098 You are right to some extent, and the reason for this dual naming is that regions were either defined by their location, or sometimes named after the tribe that inhabited. But what you said for Kosala doesn't seem to be valid. The region South of Yamuna got influenced by Kosala after the Janapada period. It was probably called as Chedi, though I think historians are not sure about this.

source? (I'm asking genuinely and seriously and definitely not trying to mock 🙇🏻)

@roblox45twelve34 Source; Inscriptions on Agathocles coins found near Ai-Khanoum, in the Kunduz area of Afghanistan.

There were most likely states that were present in the Indus region as well but Buddhist sources doesn't include these states in the Mahajanpada list.

thank you @@JayVardhanSingh

Gandhara ,modern day pakistan fro khyber pakhtunkhwa

@@ayushkumarsingh3029 OUR ANCESTORS HISTORY

gandhāra

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@@JayVardhanSingh thanks⭐

dumb thinker

You're next level gal.

Obviously not, the language and scripts of Ashoka's inscriptions were pretty advanced for that, but Ashokan inscriptions are the oldest existing writings we have now, except IVC which is undeciphered and there has been some writings found in pottery of keeladi excavation which predates Ashokan inscriptions

Wah aa gaye nav boddh...sanatan samiksha dekh lo iske liye

@@Rakshita442 Those who call themselves sanatani or Hindu are Mahayana Bauddh only. If you try to trace Evidence of Shiva or Vishnu before 8th century, you will find they were Avlokiteshwar Buddha. Sanskrit itself has evolved from Pali Pakut after 1st century and Vedas can not be written without Sanskrit. After betrayal to Indian kings by Raja Chach in Sindh, foreigners like Chach and Dahar entered in Buddhism cunningly and started creating caste biases. During Islamic period they compiled religious grantha and enforced to Indian through Muslim rulers. Read through traveller notes, inscriptions and you will know the truth. If you keep your eyes and mind shut, tomorrow someone will make you believe that Vedas were written originally in English language million of years ago and westerners learned everything from these.

@@tejyadav comedy chal Rahi hai yaha pe nav boddh kya??? sanatan samiksha channel bana hi hai tum logo ki comedy wale propaganda ko exposed karne ke liye toh use dekho..

puranas have evidence of 4th century compilation

@@QsourelConvil In 4th century the script found in Jambudweep or India were Pali and Kharoshti. Sanskrit was getting developed in Universities like Nalanda, Vikramshila, Takshashila. Please share any evidence of any inscription of Purana written in Pali or Kharoshti. If they are available only in Sanskrit then that can only be written only after Classical sanskrit is fully developed. Please read Bhavishyapurana. It mentions the presence of Queen Victoria, British rule and Muslims. That means it is written after British were known to the writer right?

That's pretty much of the only source we have for this

Jhooth lekin usme bhi thoda bahut sahi h.

Sanatan Samiksha Debunked him Not once But Multiple times.

History kabhi bhi ek source se nhi padhi jaati har ek source padhne padhte hai

its a jai bheem jai meem propoganda channel just like the other guy "science jouney" who say all world was buddhist lol

Bro. It can Tibet pov (prospective) for example look how westerns assume about us even now ! They don't even know bit about us despite abundant of sources and more connected Internet world ! In what way think Tibet peoples will know about us exactly ?😅 so take it as a BASIC idea of India of that time but not gonna be 100% accurate logical thinking needed to understand !

Yeah did you claim ur hindu and buddist past or will still shout we wuzz arabs, turk 😂I

Nav boddh sanatan samiksha dekhte raho iske liye

@@Rakshita442 गांड में पैर डाल कर भाग जाता है संडास समीक्षा ।

@@ajaylokare5384 lol who's saying

@@QsourelConvil i am

@@ajaylokare5384 ohh ajay lokare duke of edinburgh ,my respects

👆🤓 Pakistan history?? U guy's don't have history before 1947 😂

😂😅

There was no pakistan that time

U r history starts with rape of indus sindh people by Mahmud been kasim

​@@Vikram-21jameen to ab Pakistan ki hi h vo sb to kis bat p khus hore ho?

Abe ja na pakbaji, pashtun se lad jaake. Voh dekh Naya Desh bana rahe kpk mei. You jhaat,arain,awaan etc biradri aren't even related to ghandharans. Khatris, Lohanas, Pahadi Gujjars etc score closer to Gandharan grave culture than any major Pakjabi biradri.

@@meteor541 Tu ja logon ko Dilit untouchable Bana,

@@meteor541 tu ja kar khalistan se lar pehle yeh Pak history hai aur khatri Gujjar yeh sab be punjab ke biradiri Hai 😅,

According to your logic Greece was never considered a country 😂😂. Grow up kiddo. This is our history. Have a gandharan name before claiming gandharan history. Fyi, thier language was gandharan prakrit a dialect of sanskrit

@@D__Ujjwal hindustan AIK geography term hai county nahi tum ne bus 1947ko Indian name le liya to yeh history tumari hoge ab up ke log bataye ge native gandharans yeh tumari history hai