Monday, December 28, 2009

Delhi on the banks of river yamuna

Located on the banks of the River Yamuna, Delhi has been continuously inhabited since at least the 6th century BC.


The sixth century BC started the first day of 600 BC and ended the last day of 501 BC.In India, Panini, sometime during this century, composed a grammar for Sanskrit, which is the one of oldest extant gramm...ar of any language after 15 other proto-dravidian languages like Brahmi.

After the rise of the Delhi Sultanate, Delhi emerged as a major political, cultural and commercial city along the trade routeTrade route between northwest India and the Indo-Gangetic plain.