The Mauryan Polity c6.s1.t4.23

c6.s1.t4.23

"A flood of this sort is evidenced by another ancient monument not far from here. When General Cunningham dug down around the Aśoka column which still stands at Bakhra in Muzaffarpur he found that five feet of the buried shaft was covered by a virgin silt which he attributed himself to flood, and his statement has not been challenged so far as I am aware. But if there was in early times a flood like this at Bakhra, what was there to prevent its sweeping over Patna, too? I know of no high land between the sites.