Gāndhārī language

• abstract: Gāndhārī () was a north-western prakrit in which Gāndhāran texts were compiled, leading to the belief that Buddhist belief in Gandhara (Peshawar) was rooted in those residents of Gandhara having an Indo-Aryan ancestry (while Zoroastrian and pre-Zoroastrian, animistic Iranian religion was professed by those Gandaharans of Iranian ethno-linguistic heritage). Like all prakrits, Gandhari is thus descended from either Vedic Sanskrit or a closely related language.

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