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Message:: [QUOTE="andy_india, post: 2476426, member: 15884"]You may want to read more with regards to this. Gandhara was one of sixteen mahajanapadas (large parts of urban and rural areas) of ancient India. The primary cities of Gandhara were Puruṣapura (Peshawar), Takṣaśilā (Taxila), and Pushkalavati (Charsadda). The latter remained the capital of Gandhara down to the 2nd century AD, when the capital was moved to Peshawar. (and you probably know the time we are talking about there was no separate India and Pakistan, it was all Indian subcontinent right?). Gandhara was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC. Conquered by Alexander the Great in 327 BC, it subsequently became part of the Maurya Empire. At its greatest extent, the empire stretched along the natural boundary of the Himalayas, to the east into Bengal, to the west into what is present-day Balochistan, Pakistan and the Hindu Kush mountains of what is now eastern Afghanistan. With regards to your comment "The Gandhara influence never stretched to Tamil Nadu" let me tell you, the dynasty expanded into India's southern regions by the reign of the emperor Bindusara. Anyway I already mentioned its a south Indian sculpture but all I was talking about the link between gandhara and south Indian sculptures.[/QUOTE]