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Taxila , archaeological site of three successive cities, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. There between the 7th cent. BC and the 7th cent. AD was a flourishing city, famous as an ancient seat of learning. It was occupied (326 BC) by Alexander the Great, became prosperous under the empire of Asoka, and was overrun (c.1st-2d cent. AD) by the Kushans. It was a center of Buddhist studies and was visited in the 7th cent. by Hsüan-tsang . There are remains of Buddhist stupas and monasteries as well as sculpture of the Gandharan school of art.

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Taxila. The ancient capital of the Gandhāra region, known in Sanskrit, as ‘Takṣaśilā’ and in Pāli as ‘Takkasilā’. It is described in Buddhist sources as a great centre of commerce and learning, visited by merchants and scholars from all around. At the university there students were taught the vedas and the eighteen traditional Indian arts and sciences, including archery and swordsmanship.

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