Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
(Noun)
Synonyms:
dardic
Dardic language
Dard Sentence Examples
Travelling thence to Peshawar (Purushapura), the capital of Gandhara, he made a digression, through the now inaccessible valley of Swat and the Dard states, to the Upper Indus, returning to Peshawar, and then crossing the Indus (Sintu) into the decayed kingdom of Taxila (Ta-cha-si-lo, Takshasila), then subject to Kashmir.
The so-called Dard races are referred to by Pliny and Ptolemy, and are supposed to be a people of Aryan origin who ascended the Indus valley from the plains of the Punjab, reaching as far north as Chitral, where they dispossessed the Khos.
Councilor Hussey proposed an addendum to his proposal that its contents receive clearance from DARD.