The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.2
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.2
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About ten miles north-west from where Rāwalpindi now stands stood, in the fourth century B.C., the city of Takshaçilā (Taxila), long eminent among the cities of India as a great seat of learning. In the year 327 it was the capital of a rāja, whose principality lay between the Indus and its tributary the Jhelum (the ancient Vitastā, the Hydaspes of the Greeks)¹. Like Rāwalpindi to-day,