Taxila
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 30, 2024 05:31 PM
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History
An ancient city with the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takṣaśilā, an important Hindu and Buddhist center. (cited: BAtlas 6 C3 Taxila)
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60083
33.745685, 72.815207
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 3589 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- None
- Bhir Mound located at Taxila (unspecified date range)
- Jandial Temple located at Taxila (unspecified date range)
- Khanpur Cave located at Taxila (unspecified date range)
- Sambraceni located north of Taxila (unspecified date range)
- Sirkap located near Taxila (unspecified date range)
- Sirsukh located at Taxila (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 C3 Taxila
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Taxila Skt.: Takṣaśila
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Taxila: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60083> [accessed: 20 December 2024]
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