[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c12.58 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.58 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.58 - **Language:** English ### [c12.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c12.58) Taxila, now represented by more than twelve square miles of ruins to the east and north-east of Sarai-Kala, a railway-junction twenty miles north-west of Rāwalpindī, was then one of the greatest cities of the east, and was famous as the principal seat of Hindu learning in Northern India, to which scholars of all classes flocked for instruction, especially in the medical sciences.¹ - [Previous: c12.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c12.57) - [Next: c12.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c12.59) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c12.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c12.58) · Pramāṇa