About Taxila | Thakshashila | Takshashila

This should sounds like a story ! Unbelievable to us ! Something extraordinary at thousands of years back there exists a University.

Unlike the modern varsities they don't have any specialization. They don't provide affiliations to other colleges.

All students and teachers stayed together in one place. They cook, they play, they do farming and they learned from the Nature.

Yes, Thakshashila is an ancient University in what is now northwestern Pakistan. We can call it as an city of knowledge since it's more than a University.

Taxila founded on 1000 BCE. Based on the references from Ramayana, King Bharata founded the town in the name of his son, Takshaka.