Cunningham's Ancient Geography of India c6.20

c6.20

During that time he visited most of the great cities throughout the country, from Kabul and Kashmir to the mouths of the Ganges and Indus, and from Nepâl to Kânchipura near Madras. The pilgrim entered Kabul from the north-west, viâ Bamian, about the end of May, A.D. 630, and after many wanderings and several long halts, crossed the Indus at Ohind in April of the following year. He spent several months in Taxila for the purpose of visiting the holy places of Buddhism, and then proceeded to Kashmir, where he stayed for two whole years to study some of the more learned works of his religion. On his journey eastward he visited the ruins of *Sangala*, so famous in the history of Alexander, and after a stay of fourteen months in *Chinapati*, and of four months in *Jâlandhara*, for the further study of his religion he crossed the Satlej in the autumn of A.D. 635. From thence his onward course was more devious, as several times he retraced his steps to visit places which had been left behind in his direct easterly route. Thus, after having reached Mathurâ he returned to the north-west, a distance of 200 miles to *Thâneswar*, from whence he resumed his easterly route viâ *Srughna* on the Jumna, and *Gangâdwâra* on the Ganges to *Ahichhatra*, the capital of Northern Panchâla, or Rohilkhand. He next recrossed the Ganges to visit the celebrated cities of *Sankisa*, *Kanoj*, and *Kosâmbi* in the Doâb, and then turning northward into Oudh he paid his devotions at the holy places of *Ayodhyâ* and *Srâvasti*. From thence he resumed his easterly