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  • GANDĀPŪR, ŠĒR MOḤAMMAD KHAN

    M. Jamil Hanifi

    b. Mehrdād Khan b. Āzād Khan, author of the Persian Tawārīḵ-e ḵoršīd-e jahān, an important chronicle containing genealogical accounts and tables of Pashtun/Paxtun tribal groups.

  • GAṆDARƎBA

    Antonio Panaino

    (Mid. Pers. Gandarw/Gandarb), a term attested the Avesta as the name of a monster living in the lake Vourukaṧa.

  • GANDHĀRA

    Willem Vogelsang

    (OPers. Gandāra), a province of the Persian empire under the Achaemenids. The name of Gandhāra or Gandhārī occurs in ancient Indian texts as the name of a people.

  • GANDHĀRAN ART

    B. A. Litvinsky

    Iranian contribution and Iranian connections. The region of Gandhāra attained its peak of prosperity in the Kushan period (1st to 3rd centuries CE), when it became one of the strongholds of Buddhism.

  • GĀNDHĀRĪ LANGUAGE

    Richard Salomon

    The language of ancient Gandhāra, the area around the Peshawar Valley in the modern North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, lying near the border of the Indian and Iranian linguistic areas.

  • GANDOM

    Daniel Balland and Marcel Bazin

    “wheat,”  both the plant and the grain. Wheat bread has been the staple of local diets throughout Iranian plateau for millennia. A very broad range of bread wheat varieties has traditionally been grown in the Iranian lands, especially in Afghanistan.

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  • GANDOMAK, TREATY OF

    M. Jamil Hanifi

    an agreement between Amir Moḥammad-Yaʿqub of Afghanistan (r. February to October 1879) and Major Pierre Louis Napolıon Cavagnari, representing the British Government of India.

  • GĀNEMĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See Supplement.

  • GANG DEŽ

    Cross-Reference

    See KANGDEŽ.

  • ḠANĪ (article 1)

    G. L. Tikku and EIr

    Pen name of Mollā MOḤAMMAD-ṬĀHER KAŠMĪRĪ (1630-69), one of the most celebrated poets of Kashmir who wrote in the Indian Style (sabk-e hendī).