Where does “Gāndhārī” come from?

Gāndhārī (English) comes from Sanskrit गान्धारी, from Sanskrit गन्धार — Gandhara, an ancient kingdom that occupied parts of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Gāndhārī (English): 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

Definitions

  1. 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

Ancestry of “Gāndhārī”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritगान्धारीWife of धृतराष्ट्र, mother of कौरव and the sister of शकुनि
2Sanskritगन्धारGandhara, an ancient kingdom that occupied parts of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan
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