The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c13.22

c13.22

To mark the farthest point of his advance, he erected twelve huge altars, built of squared stone, and each fifty cubits in height, dedicated to the twelve great gods. Although the army had not passed the river, these massive memorials are alleged by Pliny to have been erected on the farther, i.e. northern, bank, where they long remained to excite the wonder and veneration of both natives and foreigners.¹ They probably stood at the point where the Biās flows from east to west between Indaura in the Kāngrā and Mirthal in the Gurdāspur district, close to the foot of the hills. The cutting back of the northern bank, which has extended for about five miles, has swept away all traces of the buildings.²