76 kms (47 miles) from Peshawar, on the ancient route which runs north to the Kabul River, lie the ruins at another Buddhist monastery at Chanaka Dheri near Sbabaz Garhi.

These consist of a rectangular tank, the foundations of a circular stupa and the main complex consisting of two rows of three stupas each, plus a row of monastic cells on the side of the tank and royal stone-carved edicts at the great Mauryan King Ashoka (2nd century B.C.).

It was one at the most important cities of Gandhara.

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