Geography of Early Buddhism c8.12

c8.12

The Behistun inscription of Darius (C. 516 B.C.) purports to record that Gadara or Gandhāra was one of the kingdoms subject to the Persian Empire; it, therefore, appears that some time in the latter half of the 6th century B.C., the Gandhāra kingdom was conquered by the Achaemenid kings. In the time of Asoka, however, Gandhāra formed a part of the empire of the great Buddhist Emperor; the Gandhāras whose capital was Takkasilā are mentioned in his Rock Edict V.