The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c25.5

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Sākētam (Sākēta) probably was a town in Southern Oudh, but not identical with Ajodhya, as it is often asserted to be. There seem to have been several places of the name (Weber, in *Ind. Ant.*, ii, 208). The identifications of the Shā-che of Fa-hien with the Viśākhā of Hiuen Tsang and with Sākētam, as made by Cunningham, are equally unsound (*J. R. A. S.*, 1898, p. 522; 1900, p. 3). At present the position of Sākētam cannot be determined precisely.