The famous Mogao caves in today's Gansu province have many Indian style murals & sculptures. How about we call it Ajanta East, Panda posed. "Today's Xinjiang province was only named thus in the 19th century after splitting Turkestan with Russia. But until a thousand years ago, a part of it (the Tarim Basin) was Indic in culture, a thriving part of the Sanskritic world where the people spoke Gāndhārī language. Let's call it Gandharva Pradesh?" he posed.
