More at : http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/gandhara.html

Trust me, at first glance the writings appeared eerily similar to that on the Dead Sea Scrolls! Extraordinary information. Thanks for the link.

Wonderful documents of world literature.

presently the Kandahar, 2nd biggest city in Afghanistan has its name origin from this itself..even in the Epic Mahabharath the name is often heard..

.........its amazing not that it exists but how little we know about this part of the ancient civilization....its more pathetic that the goyenments & institutions of this region Afghanistan to Tibet do not make effort to highlight that...and there are lonely scattered voices loud as they may be.......some may even wonder why such artifice is in British Museums is it because we blow them up sell them are not worthy of that heritage..........

My Poem Out Of Respect* Ko Tao of a holy script When I touch the Thousand folds of wraps of the holy scripts On the roof terrace of a sacred Confucius temple in the forbidden city I breathe in the smell of old Taoist monks The fragrance brought from the scripts of Old medieval empire of the Tibetan monks For the protection of the universe I was permitted only one fold to touch In the morning dew as freshly whispering Dawn I recall my humble existence And feel the river Lijiang Flowing through my veins Oh the traveller on the sacred Land Bow your head for me in the temple of your wisdom Chant for me in silence and solitudes as I stand Holding in my hands The sacred essence of yesterday M.Bugi=

speechless! not only all the pics but information is also too( how should i express?) valuable!

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