Original sentence: Gandhara was one of sixteen mahajanapadas (large conglomerations of urban and rural areas) of ancient India mentioned in Buddhist sources such as Anguttara Nikaya.Gandhāra was an ancient state, a mahajanapada, in the Peshawar basin in the northwest portion of  the ancient Indian subcontinent, present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan
Edited sentence: Gandhāra (Gandhari: 𐨒𐨀𐨞𐨡𐨀𐨪𐨀) was an ancient state in the northern Indus Valley in present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan