Attock Khurd (the old city) has a rich history and was of special importance
to the entire sub-continent. The great grammarian Pāṇini, who wrote the Aṣṭādhyāyī, the oldest surviving Sanskrit grammar,
is said in some historical sources to have been born near Attock in Shalātura,
modern Lahur, on the right bank of Indus River in the ancient
Kambojan/Gandharan territory in 520 BCE. In those days Attock was located on
the high road, the Uttarapatha, the
