The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.22

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Roads in the ordinary sense of the word did not exist; but there was a net-work of well-beaten routes throughout; and along these armies in war, like merchants and pilgrims in peace-time, made their way from one city to another¹. Through this system ran the two great arteries which have been already mentioned. The chief stages on the more northern of these are described in Chapter XXII, p. 543, in connexion with the progress of the Yavana invasions. The course of the central route, which joined the northern route at Kauçāmbī, was as follows: