Gāndhārī

English Etymology From en sa गान्धारी. Proper noun An Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled. en 2010 The Dhammapada Penguin Classics 0141963557 The Gāndhārī Dharmapada. We have the remains of two manuscripts of a Dharmapada in Gāndhārī, a Prakrit from Gandhāra (an area of what is now northwest India, Pakistan and a large part of Afghanistan). en 2011 Kurt Behrendt; Pia Brancaccio Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts 0774841281 143 The largest and most interesting of these fragments (no. 1), with four partial lines of text on each side, is written not in Gāndhārī or even in Sanskritized Gāndhārī like that of the Schøyen fragments, but in more or less standard Sanskrit. en Languages