The Wall Of Sirkap

The wall of the city is made of large stone bricks with smaller stone bricks in-between the larger ones. It is remarkably smooth on the outer side. Circular bastions are present in the wall at small distances for defence. These bastions contain holes for archers who could shoot arrows at the enemy outside. شہر کی فصیل بڑے بڑے پتھروں سے بنائی گئی ہے جن کے بیچ میں چھوٹے پتھر استعمال ہوئے ہیں۔ باہر...

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The Ruins Of Sirsukh

The ancient city was excavated only on a very small scale in 1915-16 CE, and further excavation work has been impeded by a high water table which threatens the integrity of ancient structures. It was included in the World Heritage List of the UNO in 1980 as part of Taxila. اس شھر کی کھدائی ایک محدود پیمانے پر ۱۹۱۵۔۱۹۱۶ میں ہوئی۔ مزید کام پانی کی بلند سطح کی وجہ سے بند کرنا پڑا۔ ۱۹۸۰ میں ان کھنڈرات...

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The Sirsukh City

The city of Sirsukh was founded by the Kushan king Kanishka after 80 CE, and is the last of the great ancient cities of Taxila. The invaders decided to abandon the older city of Sirkap and build a newer city on the other side of the Lundi-nala. The wall of the city is about 5 kilometers long and about 5.4 meters thick. The city wall covers an area of around 2300 x 1000 meters seen along the east-west...

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Sirsukh

Sirsukh is the name of an archaeological site near the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. سرسکھ ٹیکسلا، پاکستان کے کھنڈرات کا حصہ ہے...

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Visit by Apollonius of Tyana On Sirkap

The Greek philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is related to have visited ancient Pakistan, and specifically the city of Taxila in the 1st century AD. He describes constructions of the Greek type, probably referring to Sirkap: "Taxila, they tell us, is about as big as Nineveh, and was fortified fairly well after the manner of Greek cities". "I have already described the way in which the city is walled,...

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Double-Headed Eagle Stupa Of Sirkap

A special Stupa at Sirkap is the so-called 'Double-Headed Eagle Stupa'. The pilasters here are of a Greek design, "Corinthian columns". In the middle arch, a Greek temple is shown; in the outer, a shrine of a Hindu design can be seen. On top of these sanctuaries, a double-headed eagle is seated from which the name of the Stupa has been derived. This motive is rather odd, to say the least, as it is...

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Apsidal Temple Of sirkap

The building that is known as the Apsidal Temple is the largest sanctuary of Sirkap, measuring about 70 by 40 meters (by contrast: the Parthenon in Athens is 70 by 31 meters). The Apsidal Temple consists of a square nave with several rooms, used by the Buddhist monks, and a circular room, which gives the building its apsidal shape. After the earthquake that destroyed the city in ca. 30 AD, the Buddhist...

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Round Stupa Of sirkap

One round Stupa is present at Sirkap. It is one of the oldest Stupas in the Indian-Subcontinent. It is assumed that this Stupa was uprooted and thrown to its present location by a strong earthquake in the 1st century AD. When the new city was built later, the Stupa was kept by building a protecting wall around it. سرکپ میں موجود گول ستوپہ پاکستان کے قدیم ترین ستوپوں میں سے ایک ہے۔ خیال کیا جاتا...

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Religious buildings Of Sirkap

Buddhist stupas with strong Hellenistic decorative elements can be found throughout the Sirkap site (Stupa of the two eagles as well as a Hindu temple, indicating a close interaction of religious cultures. A Greek religious temple of the Ionic order is also visible at the nearby site of Jandial (650 meters from Sirkap), but there is a possibility that it may have been dedicated to a Zoroastrian cult. The...

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سرکپ کی تاریخ

غالب خیال کے مطابق سرکپ کا شھر یونانی و بکتری بادشاہ دیمیٹریوس نے ہندوستان پر حملہ کے بعد ۱۸۰ قبل مسیح میں بسایا تھا۔ لیکن بعض لوگوں کے خیال میں یہ شھر مینندر اول نے تعمیر کیا تھا۔ اس شھر کو یونانی طرز تعمیر کے مطابق بنایا گیا تھا۔ شھر کے بیچ میں ایک میدان تھا جس کے گرد ۱۵ سڑکیں بنی ہوئی تھیں۔ شھر قریبا ۱۲۰۰X ۴۰۰ میٹر رقبے پر پھیلا ہوا تھا جس کے گرد ۵ سے ۷ میٹر چوڑی اور ۸ء۴ کیلومیٹر لمبی فصیل...

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Greek city Sirkap

The site of Sirkap was built according to the "Hippodamian" grid-plan characteristic of Greek cities. It is organized around one main avenue and fifteen perpendicular streets, covering a surface of around 1200x400 meters, with a surrounding wall 5–7 meters wide and 4.8 kilometers long. The ruins are Greek in character, similar to those of Olynthus in Macedonia. Numerous Hellenistic artifacts have...

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Sirkap

Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after he invaded ancient India around 180 BC. Demetrius founded in the northern and northwestern Indian subcontinent (modern day Pakistan) an Indo-Greek kingdom that was to last until around 10 BC. Sirkap is also said to have...

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The monument Of Mohra Muradu

The monument is found in one of the rooms of the monastery. It was probably dedicated to the memory of one of the teachers who used to live in the room where it is located. The umbrellas were once colored. The monument is about 4 meters high. ایک خاص یادگار درسگاہ کے ایک کمرہ میں موجود ہے۔ غالبا یہ ایک استاد کی یاد میں تعمیر کی گَی تھی جو کہ اس کمرہ میں رہتا تھا۔ یہ یادگار قریبا ۴ میٹر بلند ہے...

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The monastery of Mohra Muradu

The monastery consists of 27 rooms for the students and the teachers built around a courtyard with a pool. The large, square shaped pool contained water for ritual washings and was about half a metre deep. Stairs to the pool were present on all sides. The monastery also contained a kitchen and a well for water that still functions today. The rain water was collected into the pool from the roof of...

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Excavation Of Mohra Muradu

The ruins of Mohra Muradu were excavated under the supervision of Sir John Marshall by Abdul Qadir in 1914-1915. They consist of a buddhistic monastery and two stupas. The main stupa is built on a foundation more than 4.75 meters high. The smaller, votive, stupa lies behind the bigger one. موہرا مرادو کے کھنڈرات کی کھدائی پہلی مرتبہ سر جان مارشل کی زیر نگرانی عبد القادر نے ۱۹۱۴ تا ۱۹۱۵ میں کی۔...

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