The Ancient Geography of India: I. The Buddhist Period, Including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-ThsangTrübner and Company, 1871 - 589 pages |
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... mounds , from which , at various times , copious antique treasures have been extracted . " In another place he notes that " it possesses many vestiges of antiquity ; yet , as they are exclusively of a sepulchral or religious character ...
... mounds , from which , at various times , copious antique treasures have been extracted . " In another place he notes that " it possesses many vestiges of antiquity ; yet , as they are exclusively of a sepulchral or religious character ...
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... mounds covered with fragments of pottery , amongst which old coins are frequently found . There are also remains of masonry works about the hills , which the people cail Kâfir - kot , or the Kâfir's fort . The com- mentators have ...
... mounds covered with fragments of pottery , amongst which old coins are frequently found . There are also remains of masonry works about the hills , which the people cail Kâfir - kot , or the Kâfir's fort . The com- mentators have ...
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... mounds of great magnitude , and accu- rately describing a square of considerable dimensions . " * If I am right in identifying Begrâm with the Kiu- lu - sa - pang of the Chinese pilgrim , the true name of the place must have been ...
... mounds of great magnitude , and accu- rately describing a square of considerable dimensions . " * If I am right in identifying Begrâm with the Kiu- lu - sa - pang of the Chinese pilgrim , the true name of the place must have been ...
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... mound of Koratâs , with the Cadrusi of Pliny . The names of other peoples and towns are recorded by Ptolemy ; but few of them can now be identified , as we have nothing to guide us but the bare names . The Parsii , with their towns ...
... mound of Koratâs , with the Cadrusi of Pliny . The names of other peoples and towns are recorded by Ptolemy ; but few of them can now be identified , as we have nothing to guide us but the bare names . The Parsii , with their towns ...
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... mounds . " " These , " he adds , " are truly sepulchral monuments ; but , with the topes , sanction the inference that a very considerable city existed here , or that it was a place of renown for sanc- tity . It may have been both . " I ...
... mounds . " " These , " he adds , " are truly sepulchral monuments ; but , with the topes , sanction the inference that a very considerable city existed here , or that it was a place of renown for sanc- tity . It may have been both . " I ...
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Abu Rihân Abul Fazl According agrees Akbar Alexander Alexander's Alor ancient Aornos Arrian Balabhi Banâras bank Bengal Biâs Brahmans breadth bricks Buddha Buddhist called capital Ceylon Chenâb Chinese pilgrim cloth Curtius Debal described distance district Doâb east eastern Edited exactly F. J. FURNIVALL Fa-Hian famous feet Ganges Ghazni Greek Haidarâbâd Harapa hill Hindu Hwen Thsang identified India Indo-Scythian Indus inscription Jalâlpur Jhelam Johiyas Journ Julien's Hiouen Thsang Jumna Kabul Kanoj Kashmir king kingdom Kosala Kusinagara language Magadha Malwa measurement mentioned miles in circuit monastery mound mountain Muhammadan Multân nearly north-east north-west Ohind Panjâb Pliny position present probably province Ptolemy Purâna Raja Râvi reign river road route ruins Sangala Sanskrit Satlej seventh century sewed Sindh situated south-east south-west Srughna stadia Strabo stupa Taxila temple tion town translation Travels valley village visited western whole yojanas