Indian Antiquary Vol 51

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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Kampilya-Kampil, twenty-eight miles north-east of Fathgad in the Farrakhabad district,
United Provinces. It is situated on the old Ganges, between Budaon and Farrakhabad. It was the capital of Raja Drupada, who was king of South Pafchala, and was the scene of Draupadi's Svayamvara (Mbh., Adi P., ch. 138; Ramayana, Adi, ch. 23). Drupada's palace is pointed out as the most easterly of the isolated mounds on the bank of the Buda-Ganga. . Its identification with Kampil by General Cunningham (Arch. S. Rep., I,
p. 255) and by Führer (MAI.) appears to be correct and reasonable. Kamasvatt-The river Kasai in Bengal. But see Kapisa (river). It is perhaps the Koså of
the Mahabharata (Bhishma, ch. 9). Kamsâvati and Kasai are separately mentioned in
K.Ch., p. 197. Kamyakavana-The Kâmyaka-vana of the Mahabharata was situated on the bank of the
Sarasvati (Vana P., ch.5; Vamana P., ch. 34), and is not identical with Kâmyavana in the district of Mathura. Kamyaka-vana was then a romantic wilderness in Kurukshetra (Vamana P., ch. 34, v. 4), where at Kamoda, six miles to the south-east of Thânesvar, Draupadi-ka-bhåndár is pointed out as the place where Draupadi cooked food for her husbands, the Pandavas, during their sojourn at that place after Yudhishthira lost his
kingdom by gambling with the Kurus (Arch. 8. Rep., vol. XIV). Kanaka-Travancore. Same as Mushika (Padma P., Svarga, Adi, ch. 3; Garrett's Class.
Dic.). Kanakavati --Kankotah or Kanakkot, sixteen miles west of Kosam on the southern bank
of the Yamuna near its junction with the river Baisuni. (Dr. Hoey's Identification of
Kusindra, dc. in J ASB., 1900, p. 85; Ava. Kalp., ch. 106). Kanakhala-It is now a small village two miles to the east of Hurdwar at the junction
of the Ganges and Niladhara. It was the scene of Daksha-yajla of the Puranas (Karma P., Uparibhaga, ch. 36; Vamana P., chs. 4 and 34). The Mahabharata (Vana P., ch. 84) describes it as a place of pilgrimage, but states that the sacrifice was performed at Harid våra (Mbh., Salya, ch. 281). The Linga P., says that Kanakhala is near Gange
dvdra, and Daksha performed his sacrifice at this place (Linga P., Pt. I, ch. 100). Kanchipura-Konjeveram (Mbh., Bhishma, ch. IX), the capital of Dravida or Chola
(Padma P., Uttara, ch. 74), on the river Palar, forty-three miles south-west of Madras. The portion of Drâvida, in which it is situated, was called Tonda-mandala. The eastern portion of the town is called Vishnu-Kanchi and the western portion Siva-Kanchi, inhabi. ted by the worshippers of Vishnu Varada Raja and Siva called Ekâmranatha (with his consort Kamakshi Devi) respectively (Padma P., Uttara, ch. 70; Wilson's Mackenzie Collection, pp. 146, 191). See Chidambaram. Sankaracharya constructed the temple of Vishnu called Vishnu-KAñchi at Kanchi (Ananda Giri's Sarkaravijaya, ch. 67). At Biva-Kafiobi exista his tomb or Samadhi with his statue upon it within the precincts of the temple of KamAkshf Devi. The town contains the celebrated Tirtha called SivaGanga. It possessed & University (see Nalanda). The Pallava dynasty reigned at Conjeveram from the fifth to the ninth century of the Christian era, when they were overthrown by the Chola kings of Tanjore, which was also the capital of Chola or Drâvida. Kanchipura is said to have been founded by Kulottunga Cholan on the site of a forest called Kurumbar-bhumi (Mackenzie Manuscripts in JASB., vii, Pt. I, pp. 399, 403), which was afterwards called Tonda-mandala.