94 Notes on Archeological Remains at Shah hi Dheri. [No. 2, 



To the south-east of Kot Atial near the village of Shahpur a 

 large tope still exists. It was opened by General Ventura in 1832, 

 with what result is not known. 



IX. — Fa Hian* a Chinese traveller in the beginning of the 5th 

 century after Christ states that " at this place (TakshasilaJ and at 

 another place to the eastward, two days' journey from it, the people 

 have raised great towers, adorned with all the precious substances.'' 



The second tower to the eastward is very probably the Great 

 Tope of Manikyala which is at the present time by the shortest 

 route over the Shah Aladitta hill, not less than 35 miles or two 

 days' journey from Shah ki Dheri. 



X. — Plinyf gives the distance of Taxila from the Indus to the 

 Hydaspes at 120 Eoman miles or 110 British miles. By the 

 ancient road of the country abandoned for the present Grand Trunk 

 road, the distance from Shah ki Dheri to Eawal Pindi was 30 

 miles, avoiding the old Margulla cutting which, according to the 

 inscription still existing there, was completed in A. H. 1083 cor- 

 responding with A. D. 1672, or about the time when the Emperor 

 Aurangzeb marched to Hasan Abdal and sent his son Prince Sul- 

 tan with an army against the Khattaks and other Trans-Indus 

 tribes ; and from Eawal Pindi to Jhelam, the distance was 80 miles 

 via Manikyala, Dhamak and Eahtas. The whole distance there- 

 fore exactly agrees with Pliny's statement. 



* Beale's Fa Hian, Chapter XI., page 32. 

 f Book VI. Chapter 21. 



