The history in Taxila is rich, and there are many smaller ancient places worth a visit besides the main heritage sites such as Sarai Khola, which is an area that proves civilization goes back into the 3300BC, Lalchak, Badalpur, Pippala, and Bhallar all of which contain personal stupas and monasteries.
Dug up during Sir John Marshall’s supervision during 1914-15, the main stupa is built on a foundation more than 4.75m high in altitude with a slightly smaller one in the back.
It consists of about 27 rooms for the teachers and their students, surrounded by a pool used for ritual washings and a courtyard. The monastery contained a kitchen, and the well for water still is useable today. In the courtyard and rooms of the students, Buddha’s were found abundantly. Like Sirsukh, Jaulian and further Buddhist complexes at Taxila Mohra Moradu were gone when the White Huns occupied Punjab in 500 century C.E.
