A Guide to Taxila

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A Guide to Taxila

1921

Aroian speaks of it as being a great and flourishing city in the time of Alexander the Great the greatest indeed of all the cities which lay between the Indus and the Hydaspes (Jihlam).1 Strabo tells us that the country round about was thickly populated and extremely fertile as the mountains here begin to subside into the plains 2 and Plutarch3 remarks on the richness of the soil. [...] Through this part of the valley and skirting the western foot of the Hathial hill runs the Tabra or Tamrd nald which is manifestly identical with the stream balled Tiberonabo Tiberoboam or Tiberio-potamos referred to by classical authors.' Through the northern half of the valley flows the Lundi nald another tributary of the Haro river which like the Tallith nald now runs in a deep bed but in [...] These are the Kunala Stripa and monastery which stand on the northern ridge of Hathidl partly covering the old city wall of Sirkap ; the stupas and monasteries at Mohrd Moradu and Jaulidfi in the same range of hills further to the east ; and those at Badalpur and Lalchak in the valley to the north. [...] The death of Vasudeva probably occurred in the first half of the third century A. D. and from this time forward the Kushän power gradually declined 2 though it survived in the Panjab until the invasion of the White Huns or Ephthalites in the 5th century of our era. [...] CHAPTER III ART' We have seen in the foregoing chapter that between the fifth century B. C. and the fifth century A. D. Taxila was under the dominion successively of seven different nations namely : the Persians the Macedonians the Mauryas the Bactrian Greeks the Scythians (Sakas) the Parthians and the Kushäns ; and it may be taken for granted that with the exception of the Macedonians wh
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Pages
169
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145072
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i John Marshall view
Frontmatter
i-viii John Marshall view
Chapter I Topography
1-7 John Marshall view
Chapter II History
8-22 John Marshall view
Chapter III Art
23-35 John Marshall view
Chapter IV The Dharmarajika Stupa
36-59 John Marshall view
Chapter V Stupa of Kunala
60-66 John Marshall view
Chapter VI Sirkap
67-87 John Marshall view
Chapter VII Jandial
88-95 John Marshall view
Chapter VIII Sirsukh Lalchak and Badalpur
96-104 John Marshall view
Chapter IX Mohra Moradu Jaulian Etc.
105-126 John Marshall view
Short Bibliography with Abbreviations
127-128 John Marshall view
Glossary
129-132 John Marshall view

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