Editing Peshawar (section)

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Peshawar was founded as the city of ''Puruṣapura'',<ref name="Hiro2012" /><ref name="Chandra1977">{{cite book |last1=Chandra |first1=Moti |title=Trade And Trade Routes In Ancient India |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=9788170170556 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDL4kA7SWkEC&dq=ancient+peshawar&pg=PA10 |access-date=24 March 2017 |year=1977 |archive-date=7 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307070259/https://books.google.com/books?id=rDL4kA7SWkEC&dq=ancient+peshawar&pg=PA10 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Rishi1982">{{cite book |last1=Rishi |first1=Weer Rajendra |title=India & Russia: Linguistic & Cultural Affinity |date=1982 |publisher=Roma Publications |language=English |quote=The capital of Kushan Empire was Purushpura, the modern Peshawar.}}</ref> on the Gandhara Plains in the broad [[Valley of Peshawar]] in 100 CE.<ref name="Heitzman2008">{{cite book |last1=Heitzman |first1=James |title=The City in South Asia |date=2008 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-134-28962-2 |language=English |quote=Taxila long played the role of the eastern capital, in the region known as Gandhara, alongside the region's western capital Pushkaravati or Charsadda, which attracted traders along the northern bank of the Khyber River until its eclipse by the city of Purushapura (later Peshawar) established by the second century CE (Deloche 1993, 1: 31–2).}}</ref><ref name="Sandhu2000">{{cite book |last1=Sandhu |first1=Gurcharn Singh |title=A military history of ancient India |date=2000 |publisher=Vision Books |page=24 |language=English}}</ref> It may have been named after a Hindu raja who ruled the city who was known as Purush.<ref name="Jaffar1952" /> The city likely first existed as a small village in the fifth century BCE,<ref name="Grandeur">{{cite book |last1=Samad |first1=Rafi U. |title=The Grandeur of Gandhara: The Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys |date=2011 |publisher=Algora Publishing |isbn=978-0-87586-859-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pNUwBYGYgxsC&dq=purushapura&pg=PA119 |access-date=28 November 2021 |archive-date=7 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307070314/https://books.google.com/books?id=pNUwBYGYgxsC&dq=purushapura&pg=PA119 |url-status=live }}</ref> Puruṣapura was founded near the ancient Gandharan capital city of [[Pushkalavati]], near present-day [[Charsadda]].<ref name="Pakhtunkhwa">{{cite web |url=http://pakhtunkhwa.com/html/body_nwfp_in_search_of_a_name.html |title=NWFP in search of a name |work=pakhtunkhwa.com |access-date=24 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131042427/http://pakhtunkhwa.com/html/body_nwfp_in_search_of_a_name.html |archive-date=31 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="books.google.com" />