- ἡ καὶ Διονυσόπολις 'also Dionysopolis'. It also
appears in
sources as
Nagarahara, and was
situated between the
Kabul River and the Indus, in present-day...
-
Nagarahara has a 300 feet high
stupa built by Ashoka, with
marvellous sculptures.
Xuanzang paid
homage by
circling it. Both
Lampaka and
Nagarahara countries...
- H. Hodivala, the name of the
province derives from the
Sanskrit term
Nagarahara,
which appears in a 9th-century
inscription discovered at
Ghosrawa in...
-
preserved in the
library of a
monastery of the
Dharmaguptaka sect in
Nagarāhāra",
according to
Richard Salomon. The
collection includes a
variety of known...
-
preserved in the
library of a
monastery of the
Dharmaguptaka sect in
Nagarāhāra." In 1994, the
British Library acquired a
group of some
eighty Gandharan...
-
kshatriya king
holding sway over ten
neighbouring states,
including Lampaka,
Nagarahara,
Gandhara and Bannu.
Until the 9th
century AD, Kapiśi
remained the second...
-
request was
granted by Devapala. He
appointed the
Brahmin Viradeva (of
Nagarahara, present-day Jalalabad) as the head of the
Nalanda monastery. The Buddhist...
-
pilgrim Daorong traveled to
Afghanistan to
visit pilgrimage sites. In
Nagarahara was a
piece of bone from the top of Buddha's
skull four
inches long. Also...
-
preserved in the
library of a
monastery of the
Dharmaguptaka sect in
Nagarāhāra Afghanistan."
Among the
Dharmaguptaka Gandhāran
Buddhist texts in the...
- v****al-prin****lities
during Xuanzang's
visit in c. 630,
including Lampā, Varṇu,
Nagarahāra, and Gandhara;
Taxila had been only
recently lost to Kashmir. The earliest...
