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HASTINAPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HASTINAPUR , an See also:

ancient See also:city of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Meerut See also:district of the See also:United Provinces, lying on the See also:bank of a former See also:bed of the See also:Ganges, 22 M. N.E. of Meerut. It formed the See also:capital of the See also:great Pandava See also:kingdom, celebrated in the Mahabharata, and probably one of the earliest See also:Aryan settlements outside the See also:Punjab. Tradition points to a See also:group of shapeless mounds as the See also:residence of the Lunar princes of the See also:house of Bharata whose deeds are commemorated in the great See also:national epic. After the conclusion of the famous See also:war which forms the central See also:episode of that poem, Hastinapur remained for some See also:time the See also:metropolis of the descendants of Parikshit, but the See also:town was finally swept away by a See also:flood of the Ganges, and the capital was transferred to Kausambi.

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