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गन्धारि (gandhAri)

 
Capeller Eng
English
गन्धा॑रि
m.
pl.
N.
 of a people.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
गन्धा॑रि
m.
pl.
N.
 of a people,
RV.
 i, 126, 7
AV.
 v, 22, 14 (cf. गान्ध्°.)
Monier Williams 1872
English
गन्धारि, अयस्, m. pl., N. of a people.
Vedic Reference
English
Gandhāri is the name of a people in the north-west of India.
In the Rigveda^1 the good wool of the sheep of the Gandhāris
is referred to. The Gandhāris are also mentioned with the
Mūjavants, Angas, and Magadhas in the Atharvaveda.^2
Gandhāris^3 or Gāndhāris^4 are also spoken of in the Śrauta
Sūtras.^5 Zimmer^6 considers that they were settled in Vedic
times on the south bank of the Kubhā up to its mouth in the
Indus, and for some distance down the east side of the Indus
itself. They later formed a portion of the Persian empire,
and detachments of Gandarians accompanied Xerxes in his
expedition against Greece.^7
1) i. 126, 7.
2) v. 22, 14. The latter two tribes
are apparently the Eastern limit of
the poet's knowledge, the two former
the Northern.
3) Hiraṇyakeśi Śrauta Sūtra, xvii. 6
Āpastamba Śrauta Sūtra, xxii. 6, 18.
4) Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xxi. 13.
5) See Caland, Zeitschrift der Deutschen
Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 56, 553.
6) Altindisches Leben, 30, 31.
7) Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 23.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 206.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
गन्धारि
पु०
 गन्धम् ऋच्छति ऋ--इन् ६ त० । गन्धारदेशे ।“मर्वाहमत्यबोध्य गान्धारीणामिवाविका” ऋ० १ । १२६ ।गन्धं लेशरूपं गर्भमृच्छति अण् गौरा० ङीष् । १ गन्धारीगर्भवत्याञ्च उक्तमन्त्रभाष्ये माधव आहस्म “रोमशत्वेदृष्टान्तः गन्धारीणामविकेव । गन्धारा देशाः । तेषां सम्ब-न्धिन्य विजातिरिव तद्देशस्था अवयो मेषा यथा रोमशाःतथाहमस्मि । यद्वा गन्धारीणां गर्भधारिणीनां स्त्री-णामविकात्यर्थं तर्पयन्ती योनिरिव । तासामाप्रसवं रो-मादिविकर्त्तनस्य शास्त्रे निषिद्धत्वाद्योनी रोमशा भवतिअतः सोपमीयते”
Grassman
German
gandhā́ri, m., Eigenname eines Volkes.
-īṇām {126, 7} avikā́.