Taxila- one of the oldest university in south asia if not oldest. It was a major area of higher learning where many people used to come to study. It was home to one of the oldest centres of learning in law, medicine and engineering.The world’s first higher centre of learning was established in Takshila or Taxila or Takshashila (now in Pakistan) in 700BC. This centre of learning was situated about 50 km west of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. It was an important Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist center of learning. Greater than 10,500 students from all over the world came from as far as Babylonia, Greece, Arabia and China and were offered over sixty different courses in various fields such as science, mathematics, medicine, politics, warfare , astrology, astronomy, music, religion, and philosophy. A student entered at the age of 16 and if he/she was unable to pay the fees then they would be required to work for the teacher. Takshila was known mainly for it’s study of medicine and also law and military sciences. Famous personalities of the subcontinent studies here including Paninii, a famous Sankskirt Grammatarian, Chanakya and Charaka, famous physicians of ancient times and Chandragupta Maurya, a famous ruler. Charaka was known for his work on ayurvedic medicine.He described a number of medicinal sciences and was one of the first to prescribe medicines. It was through him that medical knowledge went from Pakistan to the Arabic world. It is a UNESCO heritage site