गान्धार

Monier-Williams · gāndhāra
gāndhāra mfn. fr. gandh g. kacchâdi and sindhv-ādi ‖ (gāndh), m. (cf. Pāṇ. 4-1, 169) a prince of the Gāndhāris viii, 1, 4, 10 vii, 34 8395 (-kanyā) ‖ N. of a prince (from whom the Gāndhāras derive their origin), 1839 ix, 23, 14 ‖ the third of the 7 primary notes of music iv, xii, xiv lxxxvi, 40 ‖ (also personified as a son of Rāga Bhairava) ‖ minium or red lead ‖ m. pl., N. of a people and of their country (north-east of Peshawar and giving its N. to Kandahar ‖ Pāṇini is said to have been a Gāndhāra ‖ cf. gandh, gandhāri, gāndhāri) iv, vii &c ‖ n. gum myrrh ‖ (= {ga