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KANAUJ , an See also:

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

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