India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.47

c7.s5.47

⁹ Takshaśilā (IV.3.93); Pāṇini applies the term *Tākshaśila* to those whose ancestors (*abhijana*) lived at Takshaśilā. Takshaśilā existed in all its glory at the time of Alexander's invasion and is described by the Greek writers as "a great and flourishing city, the greatest, indeed, of all the cities which lay between the Indus and the Hydaspes" (*Alexander's Invasion*, p. 92).