86 C. J. Rodgers — Feport on the Sangla Tihha. [June, 



From the above, it is plain — • 



(1) That Sangala was a strongly fortified city three days^ march from 



the Ravi in the Bari Doab. 



(2) It was a large city loith gates, so large that Alexander's army- 



could not wholly encompass it. 



(3) The walls were so high, they needed to be battered down. 



They must have heen therefore not only high hut thick. 

 Eventually they were undermined. 



(4) The loalls ivere of brick. The city was razed to the ground. 



(5) The gap in the stockade was so large, it had to be guarded 



by more than 3,000 men. 



Nothing lohatever is said ahout the rock at Sangla. A small rock or 

 hill is mentioned outside the town. 



At Sangla, to-day, there is no sign whatever of extensive ruins such 

 as must be wherever Sangala was. The historian places it in tlie Bari 

 Doab and after its captitre Alexander marched straight on the Bias. 



From all this, I infer that Sangla Tihha has Jiothing whatever to do 

 with the strongly fortified city, surrounded hy a high and thick hrick wall, 

 besieged hy Alexander the Great, taken hy him, and razed to the ground, 



AND WHICH WAS SITUATED IN THE BaRI DoAB. 



Again, in " Buddhist Records of the Western World " compiled 

 before 713 A.D., we read that New Sakala was 3| miles to the north- 

 east of the old town of Sakala. Both Sakalas were then about S^ miles 

 in circuit. The ivalls of old Sakala were throiun dow7i, but the foundations 

 were still firm and strong. This old Sakala had, some centuries before 

 the visit of the Chinese traveller, been the capital of Mahirakula who 

 had " established his authority in this town and ruled over India." 



(Here I venture to observe that this part of the country, Sangla 

 and its vicinity, used to be known as the Sandal Bar and was an 

 impenetrable jungle.) 



" In the old town of Sakala is a sangharama with about 100 priests." 



* * * " By the side of the convent is a stnpa (tope) about 

 200 ft. high.'" * * * "To the north-east of the sangharama, 

 about a mile, is a stupa ahout 200 ft. high, built by Asoka Raja." * 



* * " About If miles to the north-east of the new capital, we 

 come to a stupa OF stone, about 200 ft. high, built by Asoka." 



(Beal's Buddhist Records of the Western World, Volume I, page 

 165-172.) 



General Cunningham makes Sangla Tibba, the Sangala of the 

 Alexandrian invasion and the Sakala of the Buddhist Records. On 

 this I have to remark : — 



