Gandhara : A Forgotten History

Gandhara, as a region, played a significant role in Indian history. In this video, we look at the history of this region and try to clear certain myths that are associated with this region.
Reference:-
1. Tribes of Ancient India by B C Law
2. Ancient India by E J Rapson
3. Political History of Ancient India by Hemachandra Raychaudhuri
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[@krishbohra5536]

Cover the region of northeast India as well. Kamarupa kingdom etc.

[@PHOENIX-ff5fl]

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

[@krishbohra5536]

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

[@PHOENIX-ff5fl]

@@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.

[@PHOENIX-ff5fl]

@@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.

[@-rate6326]

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

[@eam1955]

im irish but india and its history and culture is fascinating

[@AI-ok1ch]

THIS IS PAKISTAN NOT INDUA

[@sharayutravels]

I love how young historians are coming on you tube and sharing much needed information

[@punjabiraj2869]

It was this Ghandhara region from where Bhudhism spread to china and central Asia. In fact Bhudhist texts of Ghandhari prakrit were translated directly into Chinese and Tibetan Languages instead of from Pali or Sanskrit. Infact Pali was the language of eastern Ghandhara as well. It was much closer in grammar, structure and phonetics to Ghandhari prakrit. It was probably the language of Takkashila city and its surrounding areas spreading upto Kashmir. Modern northern Punjabi dialects like pothowari, hindko and Pahari are heavily influenced by Pali Prakrit

[@PierCollier]

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

[@Aditya-gp2ih]

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

[@yashagrawal88]

@@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.

[@amitbansode147]

​@yashagrawal88 😂😂😂

[@hodorjones9490]

Thanks for this information 👏👏🙏

[@ayushkumarsingh3029]

Thanks for mentioning the difference between Gandhara and Kandhara.

[@tattvamashi]

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.

[@ayushkumarsingh3029]

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

[@-rate6326]

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

[@yashagrawal88]

*Kandahar

[@royarnab26]

​@@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.

[@parthasarathipanda4571]

Finally a good factual channel on indian history.

[@kraut1982]

1. The interchange of G K is common, eg Kankan in Sanskrit becomes Kangan in Hindi. Kandhar coming from Gandhar is very highly likely. 2. At some point in history present day Kandhar must be part of Gandhar region. Could have been the capital even, so locals have hung on to the name, in some form. At a later point Gandhar might have shrunk to only Peshawar and Rawalpindi region. 3. Since Buddhism was more popular in the NorthWestern region ( present day Afghanistan Pakistan) we see the mention of Gandhar in the Buddhist texts. The Jain were not active there that explains the absence of Gandhar in their texts.

[@Playerone1287]

Finally someone called out this misinformation of kandhar being ancient gandhar

[@nachiketkamble2600]

the way you explain is amazing. You'll go far.

[@kraut1982]

1. The interchange of G K is common, eg Kankan in Sanskrit becomes Kangan in Hindi. Kandahar coming from Gandahar is very highly likely. 2. At some point in history present day Kandahar must be part of Gandahar region. Could have been the capital even, so locals have still preserved the name. Later kingdoms having lost ground shrunk to present day Rawalpindi-Peshawar region. 3. Buddhism was a dominant religion in the region of present day Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. That explains the mention of Gandhara in their texts but since Jainism was not active in the region it’s missing from Jain texts.

[@pranavseth6492]

Keep up the good work my friend.

[@dr.priyadarshnimaisnamgang436]

Very insighful video. Thank you so much for clarifying the terms, Gandhara and Kandhar.

[@akitodaisuke6532]

Yar, he really never fails to amaze with his knowledge of history. Tysm Jai vardhan sir ❤

[@Gaurav-vu9qd]

Fabulous as Usual. Keep it up ❤❤

[@DeePeshxEdits]

Heyy bro idk why i just love your explanation you are just awesome

[@PhotoHeer1Patel-eu3hc]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE

[@gayathrig5208]

Excellent presentation. Very educative and informative

[@thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888]

Ironically I feel that the original independent iron age kingdom of Gandhara is heavily underrated. The Gandhara Grave Culture is very interesting.

[@sharmilakalain7549]

Very nice and informative. Baie dankie.

[@try_to_get_the_point]

That's a great reasearch bro❤. Kindly consider putting up your sources bro. Days got changed!!

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@try_to_get_the_point]

Yeah gotcha thanks

[@harsh42069]

glad to see actual indian history coming up

[@raginisingh2251]

Excellent

[@manthanpandya7501]

You forgot to mention important point in video that during Buddha's lifetime or afterwards this area was conquered by Persians and it was very rich territory of their empire where they used to get high amount of taxes

[@AD-gg2sr]

Thanks

[@anaesthete5592]

Please make videos on explaining Ajanta cave arts and Gupta era literature

[@sunilrawat2052]

How do u prepare the maps for ur videos??

[@Asitiseveryday]

Make a video on Pandu Rajar Dhibi and Unakoti relics

[@Anshu.24383]

Sir can you please make a video on the history of 'murti puja' in India! 🙏 Did murti puja started from the time of Kushans??

[@_natureisgod]

Good video❤

[@muktapidasingh6697]

Do we have any history of jammu pre 800 ad ?

[@hodorjones9490]

by the your mention of language / scripts in the edicts -- Brahmi and Kharosthi , Brahmi is supposed to be letter evolution to Kharosthi ? ( and perhaps from Brahmi evolved Sharda - and the Devanagari ? )🙏

[@randomturd1415]

Great video, just one doubt. Kandahar might not be the same as gandhar, but is the term Kandahar derived from gandhar itself?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@user-yh1qd7lj5f]

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

[@piyushsonone7]

Malwa Tribe or People ke upar ek video banao na

[@govindss27]

Hello sir, some of the terms are hard to decipher, it would be great if you could add text through subtitles.

[@shivamkesarwani1302]

Cover findings of keeladi excavations

[@ranadeb8420]

Please cover the Gangaridai civilisation & make a post. A forgotton & neglated historical civilization of India.

[@markaxworthy2508]

When I was in Peshawar Museum in 1984 I was struck by the similarity of the faces of the Buddha on Gandharan statues with those of Alexander the Great in Greek statuary. Has any investigation been done on the possible influence of Graeco-Bactrian art on subsequent images of the Buddha?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@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.

[@Sagar_RS]

Please make a video about Karnat dynasty of Mithila

[@user-rq1wo7os6d]

Krupya aap Varahadeva ne kaise gufaye banayee yah bataye

[@OK-pq1wj]

Sir i want to pursue in history+archeology. What language or script should i learn to have a better grip on inscription reading and manuscript readings.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

First learn Sanskrit

[@OK-pq1wj]

@@JayVardhanSingh thankyou sir.

[@sumitraj1]

can you video on horseman statue of pir panjal .

[@abhiramn474]

Cover the tribal kingdoms like the Gonds.

[@RaitaNag]

Please check how Gandhari of Mahabharatha was supposedly very fair and beautiful normally associated with current Afghanisthan especially northern part.

[@vanshsharma1656]

Modern gandhari people are hindkowan people from gandhar region my grandfather was a hindkowan.

[@Bronsonnarrator]

Please make a video on non vegetarian and vegitarianism in acient india. There are lot of fuddus in internet who will say anthing that comes in their mind.

[@Xyjkfghyhjnbhhhiioojggg]

Please cover up Ancient Karnata region that was even mentioned in Mahabharata 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳.

[@gururaosubbachar2888]

👌👌👌👌👌

[@singhizhem]

I would enjoy to hear a series of videos about the Punjab region. I read somewhere that Jalandhar used to be a major Buddhist town. It always intrigued me.

[@parjanyashukla176]

Yes, it's true.

[@PadmanabhanNurani]

Do you mean to say that Afghanistan Iran etc., were not part of Akhanda Bharath???

[@Sajit-Nair]

He didn't explain why he thinks peshawar was gandhara and not kandhahar?

[@yukongold6602]

🎉

[@RaitaNag]

True history unlike some who dont do much research

[@rajmallya3632]

Guys once again inaccurate info, there are 2200 year old coins belonging to Indo- Greco period explicitly mentioning Gandhara in Kabul Valley extended up to Swat Valley.

[@roblox45twelve34]

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

[@rajmallya3632]

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

[@ujjwalkumarray4786]

Please focus on gandhara people origin pashtun and religion।

[@sunil1008]

Master speculator.

[@harikrishnayadav3320]

Are there no maha janapadas in indus region?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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.

[@harikrishnayadav3320]

thank you @@JayVardhanSingh

[@rajhanssarjepatil5666]

Then from which region Gandhari of Mahabharata came?

[@ayushkumarsingh3029]

Gandhara ,modern day pakistan fro khyber pakhtunkhwa

[@AI-ok1ch]

@@ayushkumarsingh3029 OUR ANCESTORS HISTORY

[@akbrahma7739]

We lost everything.

[@tarunsharma4915]

As far as I know, its pronounced गांधार and not गंधार.

[@greatindus]

NAMES OF PLACES COINED FIRST, THAN MYTHOLOGY WRITTEN ABOUT NAMES.

[@Vath098]

If we have two Kosalas (one in Avadh and other one in Chattisgarh) it wont be outrageous to suggest that there could be two Gandharas. One in Peshawar-Rawalpindi and the other one in Kandahar.

[@yashagrawal88]

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

[@Vath098]

@@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).

[@parjanyashukla176]

​@@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.

[@krishnamohan1065]

He also married in secrecy sarmistha the next ðaughter of the dravidian king vrsparavan

[@Playerone1287]

Is it gandhar or gāndhar??

[@JayVardhanSingh]

gandhāra

[@nitishpanwar1758]

Bhai ek request hai...Hindi me bhi video bnaya karo.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Hindi channel h www.youtube.com/@ThestoryofIndia

[@nitishpanwar1758]

@@JayVardhanSingh thanks⭐

[@krishnamohan1065]

Yayati was the son of nahusa and ĝrandson of puravas aila who came from Nepal yayathey married deveyanee daughter of great dravidian ryshe sukracharya

[@PK-se2jh]

sir please expose hamara attet and science journey propoganda

[@srihemanthprakhya]

it is supposed to be pronounced as "Gaandhaara"... 🙏🏼

[@georgerosanglien]

Lalrothang haoginlal

[@uniquemountain525]

Ganghaar forgotten themselves .

[@letuscube5096]

The Book of T.W Ray Davids is a historical work. go there and research.😅

[@HassanUmer]

Best channel for subcontinent history. Cheers from Pakistan

[@Aryaman_mishra775]

Gandhara will rise again!

[@sapien2503]

No. Islam wont allow that. island is curse for humanity.

[@freethinker3054]

The way he is shaking hands says he is telling all lies snd trying to make us believe 😂

[@QsourelConvil]

dumb thinker

[@dionisiodussart5629]

And what about the khotanese kingdom ? the neighbouring loulan, "serindian" kingdom ? and the kafiristan, also forgotten by the indians ? The disastrous influence of the kushanas, pro-chinese buddhist people, should be pointed out.

[@darshanpanchal3046]

But why you are pronoucing words like, ved to vedaaaas,

[@tejyadav]

But as per evidence submitted by India Gov to UNESCO, Vedas are written in 1463 which is the oldest copy. Also the Puranas you mentioned have King and Place names of 10 tp 11 century meaning they are compiled after 11 the Century.

[@Rakshita442]

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

[@tejyadav]

@@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.

[@Rakshita442]

@@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..

[@QsourelConvil]

puranas have evidence of 4th century compilation

[@tejyadav]

@@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?

[@apontutul]

Nope.. gandhar is khandahar

[@varasarah]

writings started during Ashoka?

[@yeshwitejpratap1767]

You're next level gal.

[@anaesthete5592]

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

[@granand]

Please provide sources, citations, and references. Stop quoting travellers as their observations mean nothing to the facts

[@anaesthete5592]

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

[@susantadeb7666]

What about Kamboj region? Kamboj Rajputs presumably came from there😊. They were originally Buddhists and ruled parts of Bengal aft😮

[@AI-ok1ch]

THIS IS AL PAKISTAN ... GANDHARA WAS OF OUR ANCESTORS NOT RUNDIA

[@shivampatrike1081]

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

[@pseudogujjar]

Bhai ‘hamara ateet' naam ka KZbin channel dekhte ho kya , wo jo Tibet books se indian history padha Raha hai wo Satya hai kya ??

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

Jhooth lekin usme bhi thoda bahut sahi h.

[@Varsh413]

Sanatan Samiksha Debunked him Not once But Multiple times.

[@vanshsharma1656]

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

[@PK-se2jh]

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

[@svanimation8969]

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 !

[@ajaylokare5384]

महान बौद्ध सभ्यता

[@Rakshita442]

Nav boddh sanatan samiksha dekhte raho iske liye

[@ajaylokare5384]

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

[@QsourelConvil]

@@ajaylokare5384 lol who's saying

[@ajaylokare5384]

@@QsourelConvil i am

[@QsourelConvil]

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

[@mowglishihtzutoy5197]

jnu feku

[@magma9000]

Great Pakistan history 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@Vikram-21]

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

[@tattvamashi]

😂😅

[@GtaFanEver]

There was no pakistan that time

[@yusofahmed4169]

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

[@traderlife9301]

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

[@Ali-ld6tg]

Pakistan history 🇵🇰😘

[@DoloMalo-mw4zl]

This is Pakistani history, There was no country called Endia before British Empire 1859, This civilisation had more connections with Persian Middle Eastern and Near Eastern civilisations than what is today's Endia,

[@DoloMalo-mw4zl]

@meteor541 Tu ja logon ko Dilit untouchable Bana,

[@Ali-ld6tg]

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

[@D__Ujjwal]

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

[@Ali-ld6tg]

@@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

[@parjanyashukla176]

Check out who was Hastinapur's Bahu. 😂

[@akk7791]

Thanks