Taxila was known in Pali as Takkasilā, and in Sanskrit as तक्षशिला (Takshashila, IAST: Takṣaśilā; '(City of) hewn stone'). The Greeks pared the city's name down to Taxila which became the name that the Europeans were familiar

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In Vedic texts such as the Shatapatha Brahmana, it is mentioned that the Vedic philosopher Uddalaka Aruni (c. 7th century BCE) had travelled to the region of Gandhara. In later Buddhist texts, the Jatakas, it is specified that Taxila was the city where Aruni and his

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Early settlement
The region around Taxila was settled by the neolithicera, with some ruins at Taxila dating to 3360 BCE. Ruins

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The sites of a number of important cities noted in ancient Indian texts were identified by scholars early in the 19th century. The lost city of Taxila, however, was not identified until

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• Taxila (satrapy)
• Harappa

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1. ^ The name for the city of Taxila as it appears on the Heliodorus Pillar inscription, circa 100 BCE.
2. ^ Raymond Allchin, Bridget Allchin,

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By some accounts, Taxila was considered to be one of the earliest (or the earliest) universitiesin the world. Others do not consider it a university in the modern sense, in that the teachers living there may not have had official membership of particular colleges, and

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