Aurel Stein

On Alexander's Track to the Indus

Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India

London 2001

Stron XV+182, format: 16x23 cm

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Marc Aurel Stein (1[zasłonięte]862-19) was a Hungarian archaeologist who spent much of his life in the service of the British Empire in India. In the early years of the 20th century he conducted a series of important Central Asian expeditions traversing virtually the whole of the North-West frontier -territory not previously accessible to Europeans.

On Alexander's Track to the Indus, first published in 1929, is Aurel Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left not a trace in Indian literature or tradition.

Stein's account has justifiably achieved cult status for the dangers and hardships encountered during his own expeditions; for the light it sheds on Alexander's invasions, and the wonders of Stein's discoveries (such as Alexander's Aornos); the illumination it offers on all fields of interest from archaeology to Indian literary culture, Graeco-Buddhist art and the spread of Buddhism right across Asia.

The remarkable Aurel Stein communicates his passions and enthusiasms effortlessly to the fortunate reader of this classic.

CONTENTS
PAGE
I. An Old Transborder Goal    I
II. The Start for Swat        ....    9
III.    Visits to Buddhist Ruins .       ...    17
IV.    Welcome by an Old Friend     ...    22
V. Blr-kot and the Ruins around it      . .30
VI. Alexander's Invasion of Swat ...    41
VII. Past King Uttarasena's Stiipa ...    49
VIII. Ude-gram and its ancient Fastness   .       .    53
IX. At the Badshah's Capital       ...    62
X. Buddhist Remains about Saidu and Man-
glawar     ......    72
XI. On the Way to the Swat Kohistan   .       .    81
XII. The Entry into Torwal   ....    89
To the Headwaters of the Swat River      .    94
Across the Swat-Indus Watershed    .       .    99
XV. Over the Shilkai Pass and down Kana     .    105
XVI. The Ascent to Pir-sar     ....    113
XVII. In Search of Aornos ....    120
XVIII. The Survey of Pir-sar     '.       .       . .128
XIX. The Story of Alexander's Siege of Aornos .    135
XX. Aornos located on Pir-sar       .       .       .    143
XXI. Ancient Remains at Pir-sar and the Name
of Mount Dna  .....    149
XXII. Farewell to an Historic Site and its Story .    155
Through Chakesar and Puran .       . .160
To Buner and Mount Ham     .       .       .    166
XXV. Departure from Swat     ....    172
INDEX        175