Abstract
The word Gandhara makes its first appearance in the
oldest religious literature of South Asia, i-e, Rig-veda (Griffeth
1968:652), which is generally thought to have approximately
been composed between 1500 to 1000 BC (Basham 1963:31). So
for as the meanings of the world Gandhara is concerned it is
often translated as ‘the land of fragrance’------- taking “gand” as
fragrance and “hara” the land. Thus, the composite form of the
word Gandhara suggests “a country or piece of land the soil of
which yielded abundant fragrance and because of this quality it,
apparently, came to be known as Gandhara ‘the land of
fragrance’.
Mr. Tauqeer Ahmad Warraich . (2011) GANDHARA: AN APPRIASAL OF ITS MEANINGS AND HISTORY, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 48, Issue 1.
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