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	Sirkap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after he invaded India around 180 BC.
		Sirkap is also said to have been rebuilt by king Menander I.
		The site of Sirkap bears witness to the city-building activity of the Indo-Greeks during their occupation of the Indian territory for close to two centuries, as well as their integration of other faiths, especially Buddhism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sirkap (433 words)

	Sirkap: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sirkap is the name of an archeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila Taxila quick summary:
		Sirkap is also said to have been rebuilt by king Menander I[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link].
		The site of Sirkap bears witness to the city-building activity of the Indo-Greeks[Click link for more facts about this topic] during their occupation of the Indian territory for close to two centuries, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sirkap.htm (948 words)

	Global Heritage Fund - Site Profile
		Sirkap (or "Severed Head") spreads down the Hathial Spur and onto the plains of the Taxila Valley.
		Sirkap is laid out in an open grid format in a more organized plan than at Bhir Mound.
		The building was most likely intended to be a Zoroastrian temple, and closely follows the layout of a classical Greek temple, with a central shrine or hearth, rectangular in shape, and four Ionic columns supporting the porch.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /sites/apac/taxila.html (1150 words)

	TAXILA: Sirsukh - third ancient city of Taxila -DAWN - Local; 02 August, 2004
		The new city, Sirsukh, is slightly rectangular, measuring nearly 1,500 yards along its northern and southern sides and 1,100 along its eastern and western.
		In the interior of Sirsukh, conditions are less favourable for digging than those in Sirkap, for nearly all the area enclosed within the walls is low-lying and abundantly irrigated, with the result that the ancient remains are buried deep.
		The Sirsukh walls are faced with the heavy diaper masonry which was characteristic of the Parthian and early Kushan periods, compared to the rubble masonry characteristic of the Greek and Saka periods.
	www.dawn.com /2004/08/02/local35.htm (547 words)

	Sirkap: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sirkap is the name of an archeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila (Taxila is an archaeological site, located in the punjab province of pakistan, west of the islamabad capital...)
		The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian (Thumb300pxapproximate extent of the greco-bactrian kingdom circa 220 bce....)
		Sirkap is also said to have been rebuilt by king Menander I (Thumb350pxtetradrachm of menander i in greco-bactrian style (alexandria of the caucasusalexandria-kapisa...)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/sirkap (923 words)

	Khanna Gobindgarh Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Another legend has it: Sirkap, the ruler of Sunnet10 was in the habit of eating one goat a day.
		Sirkap was satisfied and ordered the cook to serve up a young child daily.
		In the Shajra Nasab Bandobast, 1882,” the origin of the name of the village is given as King Sarkap laid the foundation of the new town on a gold brick ‘Sone KL Int’, whereby it got the name ‘Sone Int”.
	www.khannagobindgarh.com /histkhn_sunet.htm (751 words)

	The Architecture of Punjab
		The city of Sirkap was buitlt on the Greek chessboard pattern, with streets cutting one another at rights angles and regularly aligned blocks of buildings.
		On the southern portion of Sirkap are a stupa and a monastery of vihara.
		Towards the northern gate of Sirkap lie the ruins of a temple at Jandial.
	www.punjabilok.com /heritage/architecture_punjab.htm (811 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although this town will be thrown away if the town of Sirkap develops the future, the drain and place back into which garbage is dumped was seen.
		Sirkap is the place which was the capital of Taxila from the 1st century to the 3rd century.
		Jandial which is in the place of 640m from Sirkap is the shrine of Zoroastrianiam, and will be made into the thing in the 5th century from the 2nd century of B.C. It was registered in 1980.
	contest2002.thinkquest.jp /tqj2002/50203/pakisutann-takisira-2.htm (202 words)

	Taxila India, Hathial, Dharmarajika Stupa, Kunala Stupa, Sirkap, Apsidal Shrine, Shrine of the Double-Headed Eagle, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hathial, Dharmarajika Stupa, Kunala Stupa, Sirkap, Apsidal Shrine, Shrine of the Double-Headed Eagle, Jaulians...
		Jaulian is on a road north-eastward (7 kilometers away from Sirkap on a rugged hilly outcrop.
		There is a vast coin collection that records the various historical periods of Taxila's history: from Persian times, to Alexander, the Mauryan empire, Bactrian Greeks who were followed by the Shakas, Parthians, Kushans and, finally, the destruction of Taxila by the invading hordes of White Huns.
	www.4to40.com /discoverindia/places/index.asp?article=discoverindia_places_taxila (2125 words)

	Sirkap - TheBestLinks.com - Buddhist, Hindu, Macedonia, Pakistan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sirkap - TheBestLinks.com - Buddhist, Hindu, Macedonia, Pakistan,...
		The site of Sirkap was built according to the "Hippodamian" grid-plan characteristic of Greek cities (Sky view of Sirkap (http://www.livius.org/a/1/iran/taxila.jpg)).
		It is built around one main avenue and around fifteen perpendicular streets, covering a surface of around 1200x400 meters, with a surrounding wall 5-7 meters wide and 4.8 kilometers long.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Sirkap.html (304 words)

	Tourism @ Pakwatan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Then comes the Sirkap city which is on the opposite side of Tamara Stream, is much younger and it was built somewhere around 2nd century BC, and you'll find the difference between these cities because this one is well planed.
		And as you will stroll down its streets you can call at the houses of the affluent and go slumming, as it were, in the more crowded sections where dwelt the common man of the dim and misty past.
		It was built in the mid-second century BC by the Bactrian Greeks, and ruined during the earthquake of 30 AD.
	www.pakwatan.com /main/tourism/city_detail.php3?ID=14 (4057 words)

	A Magazine, with a vision
		Mohra Moradu is a small village, approachable by foot from the university at Mahal, or from the eastern gate of Sirkap.
		From Bhir the new city was shifted to Sirkap, whose limits are defined by Tamara-Nala on the west and Geri rivulet on the east and north beyond Kachcna Kot but now dried up.
		Sirkap is a planned city with a fortification wall, the foundation of which was laid by the Greeks.
	www.magazine.com.pk /travel/pakistan.php?ss=&page=taxilahistory (4705 words)

	Taxila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though Mauryan rule was largely productive, Taxila was briefly the center of a minor local rebellion, subdued only a few years after its onset.
		Soon after Asoka's death, Taxila was conquered by the Bactrian Greeks who supposedly established a Greek city at the nearby site of Sirkap, and ruled it until about 90 BC.
		Sirkap archaeological site is also located at Taxila.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taxila (463 words)

	• Armband & Smycke för Kvinnor,Män,Mode,Healing,Yoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Taxila, and its adjoining townships of Sirkap and Sirsukh, played a dominant role in shaping the political and socio-religious history of the northwest frontiers of India from 500 BC to 500 AD.
		It was during the second century BC that another township Sirkap (which was laid in chessboard fashion, a typical Hellenistic pattern) was made the prominent cultural centre by the Sakas and the Parthians.
		Secondly, the jewellery found in Sirkap is different from the ornaments found represented in the sculptures at Sanchi and Bharut exhibiting Indian styles.
	www.rudraksha-center.com /armband.htm (12093 words)

	International Free Anwar Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And the greatest of the capitals of the Indus had been in Taxila region.
		Islamabad is modeled on the greatest of Taxila's cities, the exquisite ancient Greek metropolis of Sirkap.
		One look at the main complex dominating the "head" of the city - and where in Sirkap stood the Palace of the Governor - shows what the power structure in Pakistan is and has always been.
	www.freeanwar.net /articles/article010301.html (990 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: Taxila / Sirkap
		The second city at Taxila is called Sirkap, which means 'severed head' and is the name of a mythological demon that is said to have lived on this site.
		Sirkap was founded by the Bactrian king Demetrius, who conquered this region in the 180's BCE, and rebuild by king Menander.
		Greek religious practices, Zoroastrian cults, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism are all known from second-century Taxila.
	www.livius.org /a/pakistan/taxila/sirkap.html (547 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: Taxila / Sirkap
		This is the second of two webpages on Sirkap; the first one can be found here.
		The Apsidal temple is the largest sanctuary of Sirkap, measuring 70 x 40 meters.
		The temple of the Sun at Sirkap was a Hindu monument.
	www.livius.org /a/pakistan/taxila/sirkap2.html (526 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Taxila
		The Greco-Bactrians were a dynasty of Greek kings who controlled Bactria and Sogdiana, an area comprising todays northern Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia, the easternmost area of the Hellenistic world, from 250 to 125 BCE.
		The main road at Sirkap Sirkap is the name of an archeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, in todays Pakistan.
		To fully understand the importance of Taxila, it must be noted that the Khunjerab pass between Kashmir and Xinjiang -the current Karakorum highroad- could already be crossed in Antiquity; therefore, Taxila was connected with the Silk road between Babylonia in the far west and China in the far east.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Taxila (1701 words)

	Stone palette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stone palettes are round cosmetic trays commonly found in the areas of Bactria and Gandhara, which usually represent Greek mythological scenes.
		Some of them are attributed to the Indo-Greek period in the 2nd and 1st century BCE, and some are considered to be later realization around the 1st century CE.
		Many have been found at the archaeological site of Sirkap, in today's Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stone_palette (177 words)

	Taxila
		The city of Sirkap, or "Severed Head", chronologically the second major city of Taxila, is to be found spreading down the Hathial Spur and onto the plains of the Taxila Valley.
		It is bound by the Tamra rivulet and to the north and south by the Gau rivulet which today has been almost completely obliterated by a modern road and water channel.
		To the north of Sirkap are four temples, all standing on earlier mounds and overlooking the city.
	www.punjabilok.com /pakistan/taxila.htm (566 words)

	Gandhara Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the 2nd century B.C., it was here that Buddhism was adopted as the state religion which flourished and prevailed here for over 1000 years, starting from 2nd century B.C., until 10th century A.D. During this time Taxila, Swat and Charsaddah (old Pushkalavati) became three important centres for culture, trade and learning.
		Hundreds of monasteries and stupas were built together with Greek and Kushan towns such as Sirkap and Sirsukh both in Taxila.
		It was from these centres that a unique art of sculpture originated which is known as Gandhara Art all over the world.
	www.heritage.gov.pk /html_Pages/gandhara.html (501 words)

	Story of Glass in India & the World
		Takshashila was an important centre of the North-western province of the Mauryan Empire.
		The later town of Sirkap in this area shows evidence of international trade in glass as it has yielded remnants of foreign glass objects like mosaic and milleflori ((it is a Latin word that stands for "thousand flowers"), lace glass, ribbed and swirled ware, blue and white cameo.
		Some glass flasks unearthed at Sirkap do not seem to be indigenous, but appear to be from the Graeco-Roman culture area.
	www.indianscience.org /essays/t_es_goyal_glass.shtml (2125 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
		Image: SirkapMainRoad.jpg thumbright250pxThe main road at Sirkap '''Sirkap''' is the name of an archeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, in today's Pakistan.
		The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I of Bactria Demetrius after he invaded India around 180 BC.
		There you will find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Sirkap.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Sirkap.html (402 words)

	Sirkap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bahi, the Shingerder Stupa (said to be built where a mystical white elephant belonging to King Uttarasena expired), the Bactria-Grecian city of Sirkap, and the...
		Subsequent rulers include Menander who rebuilt Sirkap, and converted to Buddhism.
		Sirkap has the well-preserved plinths of a large city with a neat grid of well laid-out lanes off a very wide central avenue that reminded us of Hampi.
	www.33beat.com /Sirkap.html (168 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Gandhara’s wonders
		Prof Firdaullah Sehrai is a former director of Peshawar Museum and University of Peshawar Archaelogy and Fine Arts department head, and, at 78, he showed an enviable passion for and knowledge of his country’s rich history.
		Asoka was first an immense warrior who conquered much of the subcontinent and then a just king, who repented his violent ways and ruled based on the Buddhist philosophy of dhamma (“the eternal truth as taught by the Buddha”).
		SIRKAP was one of the most important Greek settlements in Gandhara and was founded by the Bactrian Greek Demetrius.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,2658,0,0,1,0 (1227 words)

	Taxila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Close to this building is a building which is considered to be a "Sun Temple".
		The "Shrine of the Double-Headed Eagle" is an impressive stupa also at Sirkap.
		The accommodation of monks was also well planned and the remains of the Kunala Monastery are a testament to that.
	www.paksearch.com /globe/2000/Aug/taxila.html (838 words)

	Adventure in Pakistan
		The stone statue of the Healing Buddha has a hole at the navel; worshipers believed they would be cured of illness by putting their finger in the hole.
		Sirkap, another well-preserved site, was a walled city built by Bactrian Greeks in 185 BC.
		There is also a museum at the site, which contains the best-preserved artifacts and has displays on daily life in the towns of Taxila.
	www.interknowledge.com /pakistan/pak02.htm (774 words)

	Taxila Views
		Sirkap: side lane and remains of a Stupa
		Next to the apsidal temple is a small stupa with no base, a circular dome was once decorated and coated with lime stucco and painted.
		The right hand is raised to the height of the shoulders with palm facing out.
	www.belfun.com /Amaury/taxila_views.htm (319 words)

	ANS Summer 1996 Newsletter - Museum News
		This study attempts to reconstruct the mint organization of Taxila, the principal region east of the river Indus, from the Indo-Greek period until its occupation by the Kushan rulers.
		It undertakes a preliminary identification of the major coin types struck at Sirkap, the chief urban settlement in Taxila during this period.
		Obverse and reverse types are analyzed according to their style and iconography; further groupings are made by examining the nature of inscriptions, control marks, fabric, layout of the types, weights and denominations of the coins.
	www.amnumsoc.org /newsletter/sum96/page41.htm (2272 words)

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