List of people from Gandhara

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Peshawer basin and Swat Valley but influence going far up to Kabul and the Pothohar Plateau.[1][2] This region played an important role in the history of South Asia and East Asia.[3] Following is the list of important Gandharans from modern day's Gandhara
region in chronological order;

Ancient era Gandharans

17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Kashmir in the north of Gandhara, Pāṇini is considered first grammarian in the world history
Mauryan Empire

Important Gandharans who influenced

Ancient India
include;

  • Pāṇini (5th century BC), born in Śalatura he was a Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar from Gandhara. Pāṇini is known for his text Aṣṭādhyāyī, a sutra-style treatise on Sanskrit grammar.[4][5]
  • Takshashila was an ancient Gandharan teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. Chanakya assisted the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta in his rise to power, and penned the Arthashastra, which is considered as an early example of political science writing in India.[6]
Chanakya

Founders of various Buddhist schools

See also: Gandharan Buddhism
Chinese illustration of Gandharan monk Vasubandhu. His teachings created Jōdo Shinshū, the most widely adhered branch of Japanese Buddhism

Gandharan Buddhist monks directly or indirectly developed important

buddhist schools
and traditions from Gandhara are as follows;

Asaṅga
from 1208 CE

.

Padmasambhāva, in Tibet
Hossō school of Yogachara tradition which was founded by Gandharan monk Vasubandhu, in Japan
Asaṅga


Translators

Important Gandharans who played a significant role in translation of

buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Chinese
are as below;

Rulers

During the ancient era (500 BC-500 AD) there were multiple independent Gandharan rulers. Notable in this era were:

Porus and king Ambhi
, a 20th century artist's imagination.
Menander I (155–130 BC) is one of the few Indo-Greek kings mentioned in both Graeco-Roman and Indian sources.
  • Archebius (1st century BC), last Indo-Greek ruler of Gandhara
  • Maues (1st century BC), first Indo-Scythian ruler of Gandhara
  • Kharahostes (1st century BC), last Indo-Scythian ruler of Gandhara
  • Gondophares (1st century AD), first Indo-Parthian ruler of Gandhara
  • Pacores (1st century AD), last Indo-Parthian ruler of Gandhara
  • Vima Takto (1st century AD), first Kushan ruler of Gandhara[15]
  • Kanishka (2nd century AD), first Buddhist Kushan ruler of Gandhara[16]
Buddha
portrait of Kidara
  • Kandik (5th century AD), last Kidarite ruler of Gandhara

Others

  • Korean Peninsula.[17]

See also

References

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  3. JSTOR 639350
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  5. ISBN 978-81-208-1494-3
  6. ^ Trautmann, Thomas R. (1971), Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra: a statistical investigation of the authorship and evolution of the text, Brill, p. 12
  7. ^ Kunsang (2006), p. 125.
  8. ISBN 978-1-00-021549-6
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  9. ^ Nattier 2008: 73
  10. ^ p. xl, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare, J, Woronoff & I. Spence
  11. ^ Arrian Anabasis of Alexander, V.29.2
  12. ^ "Porus", Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 8 September 2015
  13. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xvii. 86
  14. ^ Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, viii. 12
  15. ^ Falk, Harry (2009). The name of Vema Takhtu. W. Sundermann, A. Hintze & F. de Blois (eds.), Exegisti monumenta - Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (Iranica, 17). Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, pp. 105–116.
  16. ^ Bracey, Robert (2017). "The Date of Kanishka since 1960 (Indian Historical Review, 2017, 44(1), 1-41)". Indian Historical Review. 44: 1–41.
  17. ^ "Malananta bring Buddhism to Baekje" in Samguk Yusa III, Ha & Mintz translation, pp. 178-179.
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