PAKISTAN AND AFGHAN ARCH Flashcards
reflects the CULTURAL DIVERSITY and CONTRAST the country has experienced through the ages.
The rich past is depicted in the wide range of architectural buildings which utilize
a unique blend of artistic inspiration, design, materials, craftmanship and
construction.
* Intertwined with the architecture of broader Indian Subcontinent.
PAKISTAN AND AFGHAN ARCH
-LAYOUT IN GRID SYSTEMS.
-CITADELS
-LARGE POOLS FOR RITUAL BATHING, GRANARIES, COMPLEX SYSTEM OF COVERED
DRAINS AND SEWERS.
HARAPPAN ARCHITECTURE
AN ANCIENT
KINGDOM LOCATED
IN NORTHERN
PAKISTAN AND
EASTERN
AFGHANISTAN
GANDHARA CIVILIZATION
THE PRINCESS NAMED GANDHARI WAS MARRIED TO HASTINAPUR’S BLIND KING DHRITRASHTRA,
MAHABHARATA ERA
CYRUS THE GREAT BUILT FIRST THE “UNIVERSAL” EMPIRE, STRETCHING FROM GREECE TO THE INDUS RIVER.
RULE OF CYRUS
ISSUANCE OF COIN CURRENCY
GREAT USE OF IRON TECHNOLOGY
THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY OF THE WORLS WAS FOUNDED AT TAXILA.
PERSIAN EMPIRES
-ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERED GANDHARA AND THE INDIAN TERRITORIES OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
-HE WAS WELCOMED BY THE LOCAL KING AMBHI IN HIS PALACE AT TAXILA.
-THE ERA LASTED FOR 25 YEARS,.
ALEXANDER CONQUEST
- CHANDRAGUPTA, THE FOUNDER OF MAURYAN DYNASTY IS SAID TO HAVE LIVED IN TAXILA WHEN ALEXANDER CAPTURED THIS CITY.
-HE LED A REBELION AND ASCENDED THE THRONE.
MAURYAN DYNASTY
HE INTRODUCED BUDDHISM IN GANDHARA AND BUILT THE FIRST BUDDHIST MONASTERY, CALLED
DHARMARAJIKA VIHARA.
RULE OF ASHOKA UNDER MAURYAN DYNASTY
-THE HEPTHALITE HUNS CAPTURED GANDHARA
, HINDUISM WAS REVIVED BUT THE GANDHARAN CIVILIZATION DECLINED.
WHITE HUNS AND NEZAK
JAYAPALA, THE LAST GREAT KING, EXTENDED HIS EMPIRE FROM WEST KABUL TO THE RIVER OF STULEJ.
-ANANDAPALA, HIS SON, MOVED HIS CAPITAL NEAR NANDANA.
-TRILOCANAPALA, WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS OWN TROOPS WHICH SPELLED THE END OF
GANDHARA
HINDUSHAHI
FIRST BUDDHIST MONASTERY
DHARMARAJIKA VIHARA
FOUNDER OF MAURYAN DYNASTY THAT LED A REBELION
CHANDRAGUPTA
WHERE THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED
TAXILA
HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS OWN TROOPS
TRILOCANAPALA
LATE GREAT KING (HINDUSHAHI)
JAYAPALA
SON OF JAYAPALA
ANANDAPALA
ART OF PAKISTAN AND AFGHAM
- EARLIEST IMAGES OF BUDDHA.
- INFLUENCED HELLENESTIC ART
-GANDHARA’S LANGUAGE
MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN DIALECT
ARCHITECTURE (ART OF THE GANDHARAN BUDDHIST)
A FUSION OF GRECO-ROMAN, IRANIAN AND INDIAN STYLE
remains in Sirkap. There are three
panels separated by Corinthian wall columns with shoots of Acanthus decorations on the wall of either side of the stairs in front of the square platform
“Double-Headed Eagle Stupa
PERSIAN AND
GREEK INFLUENCED LED
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF…
GRECO-BUDDHIST STYLE
PERSIAN AND
GREEK INFLUENCED LED
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF…
GRECO-BUDDHIST STYLE
THE STATUES REPRESENTED A LATER EVOLUTION OF THE
CLASSIC BLENDED STYLE OF ANCIENT ART IN AFGHANISTAN
BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN
(“LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE UNIVERSE”),
THE MALE
SALSAL
A (“Queen Mother”), THE FEMALE
SHAHMAMA
