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    Pushkalavati, was the capital of the ancient region of Gāndhāra, situated in present day's Pakistan. Its ruins are located on the outskirts of the modern...
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    name of Charsadda was Pushkalavati.The city hosts the ruins of what was once the ancient Gandharan capital city of Pushkalavati (meaning Lotus City in...
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    known as pune) Purushapura (modern day's Peshawer, now in Pakistan ) Pushkalavati (modern day's Charsadda, now in Pakistan) Prayag (in modern Prayagraj)...
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  • Pushkalavati Museum also known as Charsadda Museum established in 2006, located in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Pushkalavati was the first...
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    south. The capital of the Gandhara satrapy was Pushkalavati. Archeological excavations of Pushkalavati were conducted by Mortimer Wheeler in 1962 who...
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    region of Gandhara, including the ruins of the Gandharan capital of Pushkalavati (located near present day Charsadda). The region's history is characterized...
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    "Artemidorus the Invincible") was a king who ruled in the area of Gandhara and Pushkalavati in modern northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Artemidorus has a Greek...
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    AD), Taxila Bhir Mound (c. 300 BC), or the Shaikhan Dehri hoard near Pushkalavati have revealed numerous Achaemenid coins as well as many Greek coins from...
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    obscure. His name was previously interpreted as "The man from Pushkalavati". Pushkalavati was the historic capital of Gandhara located in the Valley of...
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    Bharata's children, Taksha and Pushkara, had inherited Takshashila and Pushkalavati respectively. Lakshmana's children, Angada and Chandraketu, had inherited...
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    dynasty. The river Indus watered the lands of Gandhara. Taksashila and Pushkalavati, the two cities of this Mahajanapada, are said to have been named after...
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    associated with a number of regional capitals like Taxila (modern Punjab), Pushkalavati, and Sagala, but also Alexandria in the Caucasus (modern Bagram). Other...
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    Herat Alexandria Arachosia (Kandahar) Bamyan Kabul Pakistan Purusapura Pushkalavati Takshashila Multan Banbhore/Barbarikon Debal/Patala India Tamralipta...
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    was an Indo-Greek king who ruled central and north-western Punjab and Pushkalavati. Bopearachchi dates Hippostratus to 65 to 55 BCE whereas R. C. Senior...
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  • prominent urban centres within this geographical scope were Taxila and Pushkalavati. According to a specific Jataka, Gandhara's territorial extent at a certain...
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    small coin hoard that was discovered in 2007 at the site of ancient Pushkalavati in Ancient India, modern-day Pakistan. The hoard weighed 14 kilograms...
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    the ruler of Takshashila, and his other son, Pushkala as the ruler of Pushkalavati. Bharata assisted Rama in the performance of his ashvamedha sacrifice...
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    the modern day Ghandara region were found in the Vedic Scripture as Pushkalavati. Peshawar was founded as the city of Puruṣapura, on the Gandhara Plains...
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    hoard, and also very far to the East, such as the Kabul hoard or the Pushkalavati hoard in Ancient India, following the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus...
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    during the 4th century BC. More Achaemenid coins were also found in Pushkalavati and in Bhir Mound. Punch-marked coin minted in the Kabul Valley under...
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    Bharata, the younger brother of Rama. Bharata, who also founded nearby Pushkalavati, installed his two sons, Taksha and Pushkala, as the rulers of the two...
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    remaining smaller tribes either surrendered or like the Astanenoi tribe of Pushkalavati (Charsadda) were quickly neutralized where 38,000 soldiers and 230,000...
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    associated with the mahajanapadas, are as follows: Charsada (ancient Pushkalavati) and Taxila, in Pakistan Delhi or ancient Indraprastha Hastinapura, Mathura...
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    Hund was also the last capital of Gandhara, following Charsadda (then Pushkalavati) and Peshawar (then known as Purushapura), under the Hindu Shahi rulers...
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    archaeological sites from the Gandhara civilisation such as Takht Bhai and Pushkalavati, and other Buddhist and Hindu archaeological sites including Bala Hisar...
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    Gandhara, Senior to c. 60 BCE and suggests that he ruled in some parts of Pushkalavati or even further west. Nothing is known about his dynastic connections...
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    Yudhajit, conquered Gandhara and created his kingdom of Takshasila and Pushkalavati by defeating Gandharvas and inhabiting that kingdom. Vali: Son of Vanara...
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    Maurya empire; the second from Western Asia through Bactria, Kapisi and Pushkalavati and so across the Indus at Ohind to Taxila; and the third from Kashmir...
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    Peshawar Museum.[citation needed] The city of Charsadda originally known as Pushkalavati is mentioned in the Hindu epic story the Ramayana, where Bharata brings...
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    craftmanship". Heading north towards Kashmir, he arrived in the city of Pushkalavati, with many holy Buddhist sites. Xuanzang worshipped at these "great stupas...
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