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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XI
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35d 48s N., lon.

72d 44s E." But this identification, I am satisfied, is wrong.

Cunningham, indeed, takes credit ("Ancient Geography of India," pp.

108, 109) for determining this to be the site of Arrian's Taxila,--in the upper Punjab, still existing in the ruins of Shahdheri, between the Indus and Hydaspes (the modern Jhelum).

So far he may be correct; but the Takshasila of Fa-Hsien was on the other, or western side of the Indus; and between the river and Gandhara.


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