What it says
Column I lists twenty-three lands that ‘came to me’ by the favour of Ahuramazda. Among them are Gandara, the Gandhara country around Takshashila, and Thatagush, the land of the Sattagydians beside it. Darius’ later inscriptions at Persepolis and Naqsh-i-Rustam add Hindush, the country of the Sindhu.
What it proves
It is a dated outside record that Gandhara, home of Takshashila, was held by the Achaemenid kings in the late sixth century BCE, while the Janapadas of the Ganga plain went their own way.
