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Literary Intelligence. 



[No. 3, 



Literacy Intelligence. 



General A. Cunningham in a letter to Mr. Grote gives the following 

 results of his late visit to the Punjab. 



During my last season's tour through the Punjab I visited all the 

 spots that I could hear of, that gave any promise of yielding remains 

 of interest, and although I have obtained but very few inscriptions, 

 I believe that I have ascertained the position of Taxila in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of Shah-ki-Dheri, beyond all doubt. I believe 

 also that Sangla-wdla Tiia, or the hill of Sangala is the actual site 

 of the Sangala of Alexander. It is a rocky hill rising to 215 feet 

 in height above the plain, and half surrounded by a sheet of water 

 during the rains, but which must have been a permanent lake or 

 swamp 2,000 years ago. The site is covered with very large bricks, 

 and has evidently been deserted for many centuries. The more 

 modern town of Chefca as described by Hwen Thsang, may I think 

 be identified with the large ruined town of Asarur which is still 

 inhabited. 



The point where Alexander crossed the Hydaspes may I believe be 

 looked for a few miles above Jalalpur. I examined the whole 

 neighbourhood carefully, and I am myself satisfied that the Greek 

 camp must have been near Jalalpur and the Indian Camp near Mong. 

 The latter place I look upon as the Mkaia of Alexander, and I 

 believe that the name was changed to Mog or Mong by the Lido- 

 Scythian king Moos, or Moga, the reputed founder of the place. 



The ruined city near Darapur, on the west bank of the Hydaspes, 

 is now occupied and named Dildwar. It is undoubtedly an ancient 

 site, and may dispute with Jalalpur the honor of being the site of the 

 famous Bucephala. Jalalpur itself with its precipitous hill fort of 

 Gir Jhdk, is one of the most ancient places in the Punjab. I think 

 it may be identified with the Giri-vraja of the Mahabharata. 



M&niJcyala is attributed to Eaja Manilc, and I believe with good 

 reason, as I found a coin of the satrap Zeionises son of Mcmigal, 

 deposited in a Tope, which I excavated, along with a relic box marked 

 with the Arian letter J, the initial of the name of Jihoniya or Zeionises* 

 The relic-box itself is a perfect model of a Tope, the details of the 

 mouldings, and the surrounding basement, corresponding exactly with 

 those of the Great Manikyala Tope. But the summit is crowned by 



