Gautama Buddha by ROHINI CHOWDHURY

Author:ROHINI CHOWDHURY [Chowdhury, Rohini]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788184755619
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

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The North Road or Uttarapatha

This was the name of a great trade route that ran across northern India along the Ganga river all the way to the great Persian Empire to the west. The eastern end of the North Road was Tamluk, in what is now West Bengal. From here, the road continued along the Ganga, through the kingdom of Magadha via its capital city Rajagaha; it crossed the Ganga, connecting the lands of the Licchavis and the Mallas, to Savatthi the capital of Kosala. From Savatthi, it proceeded north-west to Kapilavatthu, and from there another 1,100 kilometres to Takkasila in Gandhara, modern Pakistan, which was then a part of the Persian Empire. From Takkasila it extended further west to Balkh in Central Asia.

The North Road was also the route that Gotama followed in his travels as the son of Suddhodana visiting the court at Savatthi, as a young man studying at the University of Takkasila, upon his renunciation from Kapilavatthu to Rajagaha, and later as the Buddha, spreading his dhamma across the land.

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