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Kanyakubja is an administrative district of Uttar Pradesh., along the river Ganga, or Ganges.
Kannauj has a rich archeological and cultural heritage. Many Bronze Age weapons and tools and large numbers of stone statues have been found here.
The ancient names of tlys place, Kanyakubja or Mahodya, are found in the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and the Puranas). Amavasu founded a kingdom, the capital of which became Kanyakubja. Jahnu was such a powerful king that the river Ganga is said to have been named after him as Jahnaui. This region rose into great prominence during the Mahabharata period.
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Kampilya was the capital of South Panchala and the scene of the famous Svayamvara of Draupadi. Panchala, the tenth in the list of the sixteen premier states (Mahajanpada) in the time of Mahavira and Buddha, was the region covered by the present districts of Bareilly, Badaun and Farrukhabad.
This territory was annexed to the Nanda Empire of Magadha about C.400 B.C. Many coins found at Mathura, Kannauj, and in the Panchala region have been associated with the Mitra rulers.
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The area flourished between C.100 B.C. and C.200 A.D. Kannauj was known as Kangora or Kanogiza by the geographer, Ptolemy (C.140 A.D.). Fa-hien, the Chinese pilgrim, visited Kannauj between 399 and 414 A.D., during the reign of Chandragupta II, at a retreat at the Dragon-Shrine. Fa-hien observed, “This country is very productive and the people are flourishing and happy beyond compare.
When men of other nations come, care is taken of all of them and they are provided with what they require”. He noted the monolithic elephant pillar erected by Asoka at Sankisa. Harivarman appears to have been the founder of the Maukhari dynasty of Kannauj. Harsha also advanced towards Kannauj. The Chinese pilgrim, Hiuen Tsang, visiting Kannauj in 643 A.D., found 100 Buddhist monasteries with more than 10,000 priests. He mentions Kah-Pi-Ta (Kapitha, identified with Sankisa) as the other important place of the district. Between the eight and the tenth centuries, a tripartite struggle for the resources of the rich Gangetic plains, with three, empires – the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, the Pala Dynasty of Bengal and the Prathihara dynasty of Gujarat – annexing the seat of power at Kannauj for short periods of time.