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Encyclopedia Britannica



KANAUJ

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 648 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KANAUJ , an ancient city of British India, in
Farukhabad
 
district
 , United Provinces, near the left bank of the Ganges. Pop. (1901), 18,552. Kanauj in early times formed the
capital
  of a
great
  Hindu kingdom. Its prosperity
dates
  from a prehistoric period, and seems to have culminated about the 6th
century
  under Harsha. In 1019 it
fell
  before Mahmud of Ghazni, and again in 1194 before Mahommed Ghori. The existing ruins extend over the lands of five villages, occupying a semicircle fully 4 M. in
diameter
 . No Hindu buildings remain intact; but the
great
  mosque, constructed by Ibrahim Shah of jaunpur in 1406 out of Hindu temples, is still called by Hindus " Sita's Kitchen." Kanauj, which is traditionally said to be derived from Kanyakubja (=the crooked maiden), has given its name to an important division of Brahmans in northern India. Hindu-ism in
Lower
  Bengal also
dates
  its origin from a
Brahman
  migration southwards from this city, about Boo or goo. Kanauj is now noted for the distilling of scents.


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