A GUIDE TO TAXILA - PB

About the Book:-This book was written to provide a concise guide to the ruins of Taxila, excavation of which was led by the author. The remains of Taxila are situated immediately to the east and north-east of Sarai-kala, a junction Taxila and on the railway, twenty miles north-west of Rawalpindi. The Valley in which they lie is a singularly ancient times pleasant one, well-watered by the Haro river and its tributaries, and protected by a girdle of hills— on the north and east by the snow mountains of Hazara and the Murree ridge, on the south and west by the well- known Margalla spur and other lower eminences. This position on the great trade route, which used to connect Hindustan with Central and Western Asia, coupled with the strength of its natural defences, the fertility of its soil, and a constant supply of good water, readily account for the importance of the city in early times. Arrian speaks of it as being a great and flourishing city in the time of Alexander the Great, the greatest, indeed, of all the cities which lay between the Indus and the Hydaspes (Jihlam).