The Gandhari Language: The Lost Mother Tongue of the Frontier

A Script Born of Trade Winds and Philosophies Kharosthi was not born in isolation. It emerged at a crossroad where languages, religions, and ideas mingled like travelers at a caravanserai. Around the 3rd century BCE, under the gaze of the Mauryan Empire and the open-minded Ashoka, Gandhara became a melting pot. The script itself was a hybrid child:

it is the skeleton of thought, the blueprint of a people’s worldview