Old Persian
Gandhara was known in Sanskrit as ', in Avestan as ', in Old Persian as "Gadāra" (Old Persian cuneiform: , "Gadāra", also transliterated as "Gandāra" since the nasal "n" before consonants was omitted in the Old Persian script, and simplified as "Gandara") in Babylonian and Elamite as "Paruparaesanna" (""), in Chinese as ("Qiántuóluó"), and in Greek as ("Gandhara").