Hashtnagar

{{Short description|One constituent part of the Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.}}

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| image1 = Hashtnagar Buddha Year 384 original body only.jpg

| caption1 = Statue of the Buddha from Palatu Dheri in Hashtnagar, inscribed of "the year 384", thought to belong to the Yavana era, which would be 209 CE.

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| caption2 = Piedestal of the same statue, with Year 384 inscription: sam 1 1 1 100 20 20 20 20 4 Prothavadasa masasa divasammi pamcami 4 1 ("In the year 384, on the fifth, 5, day of the month Prausthapada").Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art [http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/PublicFiles/media/Final%20e-version%20Problems%20of%20Chronology%20in%20Gandharan%20Art.pdf p. 37] The pedestal was sawed off by L. White King in 1883 and brought to the British Museum.{{cite journal |last1=Errington |first1=Elizabeth |title=Numismatic evidence for dating the Buddhist remains of Gandhara |journal=Papers in Honour of Francine Tissot. Silk Road Art and Archaeology 6 |page=204 |url=https://www.academia.edu/3676180 |language=en}}

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Hashtnagar ({{langx|ps| هشت نګر}}, more commonly known as اشنغر in Pashto){{Citation|last=Raverty|first=Henry George|author-link=Henry George Raverty|title=A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans|url=http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:331.raverty|edition=2|year=1867|page=33|publisher=Williams and Norgate}} is one of the two constituent parts of the Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The name Hashtnagar is derived from the Sanskrit अष्टनगरम् Aṣṭanagaram, "eight towns", from Sanskrit aṣṭa, "eight" and नगर nagara, "settlement, locality, town". There was an unrelated town of the same name near Kabul in the 17th century. It was home to the Roshani Movement.

The descriptive was later influenced by the Persian هشت hasht, "eight". The etymology "Eight Towns", refers to the eight major settlements situated in this region.{{cite book|author1=Asiatick Society (Calcutta|author2=India)|title=Asiatick researches, or, Transactions of the society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA383|access-date=1 April 2011|year=1812|publisher=John Murray|pages=383–}} These are:

• Chārsadda, Hashtnagar [Muhammadzai and Kheshgi]
• Prang (the 1812 list groups Prang with Chārsadda)
• Rajjar, Chārsadda
• Sherpao, Chārsadda
• Tangi, Chārsadda
• Turangzai, Chārsadda
• Umarzai, Chārsadda
• Utmanzai, Chārsadda
• Dargai, Chārsadda