The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s12.7.2

c5.s12.7.2

VI, ch 27, and Tawney's trans., vol I, p 235) placed it on the bank of the Vitastā (Jhelum) Omphi (Ambhi), king of Taxila, submitted to Alexander when he invaded it Asoka resided at Takshaśilā when he was viceroy of the Panjab during the lifetime of his father (Asoka avadana, in Dr R L Mitra's Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, pp 6 f) Asoka's elder brother Sumana was the viceroy of this place when Bindusāra died Lost his life in a battle with Asoka, and the latter became king of Magadha It was at one time the capital of Gandhāra (Vāhīka Jātaka in Dr Rhys Davids' Buddhist Birth stories, vol I, p 266, Sarambha Jātaka in Jāt, Cam. Ed., vol.