On Friday 13 Jul 2007 3:32 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > You don't have to accept a possibly concocted story as historical fact > > just because a character in a story is named after a town. > > I thought you were saying that the town was named after the character in > the story: "Modern day Kandahar in Afghanistan has a name derived from > Gandhari, after a girl from a Kingdom in that area who married > Dhritarashtra".
Sorry. Typed in haste. The character Gandhari was from the Gandhara kindom of that area. Kandahar derives its name from the Gandhara kingdom, and not from Gandhari the character. shiv
