[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) › c29.157 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.157 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.157 - **Language:** English ### [c29.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.157) ¹ The ruins of Valabhī at Walā, 18 or 20 miles north-west of Bhāonagar, are mostly underground. The history is given by Burgess in \*A. S. W. I.\*, vol. ii, (1876), pp. 80–6, though his account is partly obsolete; and by Bhagwān Lal Indraji and Jackson in \*Bomb. Gaz.\* (1896), vol. i, part i, pp. 78–106. The latest dynastic list is that in Kielhorn's 'Supplement to List of Northern Inscriptions', App. B, p. 11 (\*Ep. Ind.\*, vol. viii, April, 1905). For approximate date of destruction of Valabhī as a capital see Burgess, \*A. S. W. I.\*, vol. vi, p. 3; vol. ix, p. 4. But certain traditions assert that the city was destroyed by Gūjars from Sind (\*J. A. S. B.\*, part i, vol. lv (1886), p. 181). Valabhī even now exists as a country town (\*Bomb. Gaz., ut supra\*, p. 95, note 1). - [Previous: c29.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.156) - [Next: c29.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.158) - [Up: c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.157) · Pramāṇa