Old name of peshawar

  

 

       

Peshawar, city, focal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa territory, northern Pakistan. The city (capital of the area) lies only west of the Bara River, a feeder of the Kabul River, close to the Khyber Pass. The Shahji-ki Dheri hills, arranged toward the east, cover vestiges of the biggest Buddhist stupa in the subcontinent (second century CE), which verify the protracted relationship of the city with the Buddha and Buddhism. When the capital of the antiquated Buddhist realm of Gandhara, the city was referred to differently as Parasawara and Purusapura (town, or residence, of Purusa);  

                              OLD NAME OF PESHAWAR,

     

The cutting edge name of the city "Peshawar" comes from the Persian words 'Pesh' - 'Awardan' signifying 'the primary coming city.[14] It was named so by Mughal Emperor Akbar from its old name Parashawar, the importance of which Akbar didn't understand.[15][14] The name 'Parashawar' itself is viewed as a defilement of the Sanskrit name "Purushapura" (Sanskrit: Puruṣapura, signifying "City of Men " or "City of Purusha").[16][17][18] However, the name Purushapura doesn't show up in any old Indian scholarly sources.[19] The leader of the city during its establishing may have been a Hindu raja (King) named Purush; the word pur signifies "city" in Sanskrit.[20][21][22] Sanskrit, written in the Kharosthi content, was the abstract language utilized by the Buddhist realms which governed over the space during its most punctual recorded period.[23] The city's name may likewise be gotten from the Sanskrit name for "City of Flowers," Poshapura, a name found in an old Kharosthi engraving that may allude to Peshawar.[24]