ATTRACTIVE GANDHARA CULTURE CA. 100 AD SCHIST HAND OF BUDDHA - RARE - R661
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:8197329 | Material: Black ware |
Description: ATTRACTIVE GANDHARA CULTURE CA.100 AD SCHIST HAND OF BUDDHA - RARE - R661Gandhāra was an ancient state, a mahajanapada, in the Peshawar basin in the northwest portion of the ancient Indian subcontinent, present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. The center of the region was at the confluence of the Kabul and Swat rivers, bounded by the Sulaiman Mountains on the west and the Indus ...River on the east. The Safed Koh mountains separated it from the Kohat region to the south. This being the core area of Gandhara, the cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus river to the Taxila region and westwards into the Kabul and Bamiyan valleys in Afghanistan, and northwards up to the Karakoram range. Gandhara was one of sixteen mahajanapadas (large conglomerations of urban and rural areas) of ancient India mentioned in Buddhist sources such as Anguttara Nikaya.During the Achaemenid period and Hellenistic period, its capital city was Pushkalavati (Greek: Πευκελαώτις), modern Charsadda. Later the capital city was moved to Peshawar[note 2] by the Kushan emperor Kanishka the Great in about AD 127.Gandhara existed since the time of the Rigveda (c. 1500–1200 BC), as well as the Zoroastrian Avesta, which mentions it as Vaēkərəta, the sixth most beautiful place on earth, created by Ahura Mazda. Gandhara was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC. Conquered by Alexander the Great in 327 BC, it subsequently became part of the Maurya Empire and then the Indo-Greek Kingdom. The region was a major center for Greco-Buddhism under the Indo-Greeks and Gandharan Buddhism under later dynasties. It was also a central location for the spread of Buddhism to Central Asia and East Asia. It was also a center of BactrianZoroastrianism and Hinduism.Famed for its local tradition of Gandhara (Greco-Buddhist) Art, Gandhara attained its height from the 1st century to the 5th century under the Kushan Empire. Gandhara "flourished at the crossroads of Asia, " connecting trade routes and absorbing cultural influences from diverse civilizations; Buddhism thrived until 8th or 9th centuries, when Islam first began to gain sway in the region.[ Pockets of Buddhism persisted in Pakistan's Swat valley until the 11th century.
Condition: intact
Measurements: 75 MM : 105 GR
Provenance: From an old British collection;
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Condition: intact
Measurements: 75 MM : 105 GR
Provenance: From an old British collection;
All items with come with an individual certificate
Postage:
We offer combine postage within the same auction, on the end of each auction please wait for your final invoice, payments not received after 2 days will have cases open automatically by Ebay.
Shipping:
All items are posted up to 48 hours after payment is made with registered mail. Deliveries within the UK would take between 1-3 business working days. Deliveries within EU and the Rest of the World would take between 5 to 20 working days.
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