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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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