As a deity name
Name 719 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
गान्धार · gāndhār · s.m.
The third of the seven primary notes of music — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 893
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the third of the 7 primary notes of music
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
gāndhāra mfn. fr. gandh˚, g. kacchādi and sindhv-ādi
gāndhāra m. (Pāṇ. iv, 1, 169) a prince of the Gāndhāris, ŚBr. viii, 1, 4, 10; AitBr. vii, 34; Hariv. 8395 (-kanyā)
N. of a prince (from whom the Gāndhāras derive their origin), 1839; BhP. ix, 23, 14
the third of the 7 primary notes of music, MBh. iv, xii, xiv; VarBṛS. lxxxvi, 40
(also personified as a son of Rāga Bhairava)
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