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Taxila. An Illustrated Account of Archaeological Excavations Carried Out at Taxila under the Orders of the Government of India Between the Years 1913 and 1934. Vil I. Structural Remains

1934

They have shown us often with tragic clearness how (hiring those centuries Taxila was time and again destroyed and then rebuilt by invaders from the East and West who successively made themselves masters of the Panjäb notably by the Mauryas the Bactrian Greeks the akas the Parthians and the Kushans ; and how it was left to the White I Iuns at the close of the fifth century to destroy the cit [...] Then at the beginning of the second century B. C. the city was shifted from the Bhir Mound to Sirkap and laid out on the typical ' chess-board' pattern then in fashion in the Hellenistic world and in striking contrast with the crooked streets and haphazard planning of the earlier cities of the Bhir Mound. [...] Arrian speaks of it as a great and flourishing city in the time of Alexander the Great—' the greatest of all the cities between the Indus and the Jhelum (Hydaspes)'.' Strabo says that the country round about was thickly populated and extremely fertile as the mountains here begin to subside into the plain 2 and Plutarch also remarks on the richness of the soil.3 Hsiian Tsang writes in a similar st [...] Through this part of the valley and skirting the western foot of the Hathial hill runs the Tamra or Tabra nala a small tributary of the Haro which is no doubt identical with the stream variously called Tiberonabo Tiberoboam or Tiberio-potamos in classical authors.' Through the northern part of the valley at its western end flows the Lundi nala another small stream which joins the Tamra nala [...] They stood on the left bank of the Tamra nala to the north of the village of Mohra Maliarati the former about Too yards the latter about 70o yards from the village.?
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Frontmatter
iv-xiv John Marshall view
Preface
xv-xx John Marshall view
Chapter I. Topographical
1-10 John Marshall view
Chapter 2. Historical
11-86 John Marshall view
Chapter 3. Bhir Mound
87-111 John Marshall view
Chapter 4. Sirkap
112-136 John Marshall view
Chapter 5. Sirkap (Continued)
137-178 John Marshall view
Chapter 6. Sirkap (Continued)
179-213 John Marshall view
Chapter 7. Sirkap (Continued)
214-216 John Marshall view
Chapter 8. Sirsukh
217-221 John Marshall view
Chapter 9. Temple of Jandial
222-229 John Marshall view
Chapter 10. The Dharmarajika
230-273 John Marshall view
Chapter 11. The Dharmarajika (Continued)
274-295 John Marshall view
Chapter 12. Report on the Human Remains from the Dharmarajika
296-314 B. S. Guha, S. Sarkar, H. K. Bose view
Chapter 13. Khader Mohra Akhauri etc.
315-321 John Marshall view
Chapter 14. Kalawan
322-341 John Marshall view
Chapter 15. Giri
342-347 John Marshall view
Chapter 16. Stupas of Kunala and Ghai
348-354 John Marshall view
Chapter 17. Mounds A and B at Jandial
355-357 John Marshall view
Chapter 18. Mohra Moradu
358-364 John Marshall view
Chapter 19. Pippala
365-367 John Marshall view
Chapter 20. Jaulian
368-387 John Marshall view
Chapter 21. Lalchak
388-390 John Marshall view
Chapter 22. Bhamala
391-397 John Marshall view

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