Charsada district of district of KPK province of Pakistan
Short brief history of Chasadda district of KPK (Pakistan)
Charsadda is a headquarters of Charsadda District, in the KPK province of Pakistan.
The earliest archaeological deposits recovered at Charsadda are dated
to ca. 1400 BCE, constituting a series of post holes in association
with ceramic sherds and ash. Subsequent periods indicate that more
permanent structures were built at Charsadda, including stone-lined
pits. Between the 14th century BCE and the 6th century BCE, when an
Achaemenid presence is represented at the site (see below), the
inhabitants of Charsadda developed an iron-working industry and used
ceramics that are typical for this period in the Vale of Peshawar, Swat
and Dir.
The father of Sanskrit grammar, Panini was from this area and lived around 500−700 BCE.
The later history of Charsadda can be traced back to the 6th century
BCE. It was the capital of Gandhara from the 6th century BCE to the 2nd
century CE. The ancient name of Charsadda was Pushkalavati which means "Lotus City". It was the administrative centre of the Gandhara kingdom. Many invaders have ruled over this region during different times of history. These include the Persions,Alexander the great Greeks, the Mauryas, the Greco-Bactrians, the Indo-Greeks, the Indo-Scythians, the Indo-Parthians, the Kushans, the Huns, the Turks the Guptas.
Charsadda is contiguous to the town of Prang; and these two places were identified by Alexander Cunningham
with the ancient Pushkalāvati, capital of the region at the time of
Alexander's invasion, and transliterated as Peukelaus or Peukelaotis by
the Greek historians. Its chieftain (Astes), according to Arrian, was
killed in defence of one of his strongholds after a prolonged siege by Hephaistion. Ptolemy fixes its site upon the eastern bank of the Suastene or Swat. In the seventh century CE Hiuen Tsiang visited the city, which he describes as being 100 li (16⅔ miles) north-east of Peshawar. A stupa, erected over the spot where Budha
made an alms-offering of his eyes, formed the great attraction for the
Buddhist pilgrim and his co-religionists. The city, however, had even
then been abandoned as a political capital in favour of Purushapura,
Parashāwara.
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