Taxila

Taxila

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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Taxila, Punjab/Pakistan Ruins. The present name is the Greek version of the Sanskrit name Takṣaśilā ‘The Rock of Takṣa’. According to the Rāmāyaṇa, the Indian epic, the city was founded by Bharata, the younger brother of Rāma, and named after his son, Takṣa, who was its first ruler. The city was destroyed by the Huns in the 7th century and was never rebuilt.

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