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    Two great highways that have connected different parts of the sub-continent since the Iron Age.

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    Dakshinapatha is a historical which has been used to describe the great southern highway in India, traveling from Magadha to Pratishthana.
    Uttarapatha or the great northern road ran from Taxila in Afganisthan, through the modern Punjab up to the western coast of Yamuna.Following the course of Yamuna, it went southwards up to Mathura, from there it passed on to Ujjain in Malwa and to Broach on western coast.The most important ruler of the Satavahanas, Gautamiputra Shri Satakarni and other Satavahana rulers were known as lords of the dakshinapatha.


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