Editing Sirkap (section)

==Visit by Apollonius of Tyana==
The Greek philosopher [[Apollonius of Tyana]] is related to have visited ancient India, and specifically the city of [[Taxila]] in the 1st century AD. He describes constructions of the Greek type, probably referring to Sirkap:

:"Taxila, they tell us, is about as big as [[Nineveh]], and was fortified fairly well after the manner of Greek cities".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_2_16.html#§20 |title=(Life of Apollonius Tyana, II 20) |access-date=26 March 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310044312/https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_2_16.html#§20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

:"I have already described the way in which the city is walled, but they say that it was divided up into narrow streets in the same irregular manner as in Athens, and that the houses were built in such a way that if you look at them from outside they had only one story, while if you went into one of them, you at once found subterranean chambers extending as far below the level of the earth as did the chambers above."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_2_21.html#§23 |title=(Life of Apollonius Tyana, II 23) |access-date=26 March 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310023858/https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_2_21.html#§23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>