Takshashila is described in some detail in later Jātaka tales, written in Sri Lanka around the 5th century AD.

The famous treatise Arthashastra ( Sanskrit for The knowledge of Economics ) by Chanakya, is said to have been composed in Takshashila itself.

Constructed in eight stages, this road is said to have connected the cities of Purushpur, Takshashila, Hastinapur, Kanyakubja, Prayag, Pataliputra and Tamralipta.

An early center of learning in India dating back to the 5th century BC was Taxila ( also known as Takshashila ), which taught the three Vedas and the eighteen accomplishments.

The Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex was incorporated as another academic complex of the institute with Takshashila starting operation in 2002, Vikramshila in 2003 and Nalanda in 2012.

The Maurya Empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya, with help from Chanakya, a Brahmin teacher at Takshashila.

Takshashila was well connected by roads with other parts of the Maurya empire.

Previously it was commonly held by scholars that the Lepchas migrated from Tibet or southern China ; but the Lepchas hold on a story mentioned in Chunakh-Aakhen, a Lepcha book of history, tradition and folk-lore that a Lepcha king named Pohartak Panu sent his army to help Chandragupta Maurya, the Mauryan emperor in his war with the Greeks in Takshashila.

* Chanakya ( c. 350-c. 275 BCE ), author of Arthashastra, professor ( acharya ) of political science at the Takshashila University

Chanakya ( c. 350 – 275 BC ) was a political thinker in Takshashila.

Originally a teacher at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age.

Chanakya ( c. 350-275 BC ) was a professor of political science at Takshashila University, and later the Prime Minister of emperor Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya Empire.

Scattered references in later works indicate that Takshashila may have dated back to at least the 5th century BCE.

Taxila or Takshashila, in former India but modern-day Pakistan, was an early Buddhist centre of learning, near present day Islamabad in the city of Taxila.

Generally, a student entered Takshashila at the age of sixteen.

The primary cities of Gandhara were Purushapura ( now Peshawar ), Takshashila ( or Taxila ) and Pushkalavati.

He had two well-known sons, Susima and Ashoka, who were the viceroys of Takshashila and Ujjain.

* 300s – Takshashila, The oldest university ( Vedic University ) in the world ( according to some historian ) was built in Indian Subcontinent.

The first millennium and the few centuries preceding it saw the flourishing of higher education at Nalanda, Takshashila University, Ujjain, & Vikramshila Universities.

The Takshashila University was an important seat of learning in the ancient world.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

Of all the Whig tracts written in support of the Succession, The Crisis is perhaps the most significant.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

It is perhaps too late now to talk of mandate because it is inconsistent with what is termed political realism.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

-- Is this, perhaps, one of the things that is wrong with our country??

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.