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Kanhagiri - Kanheri in the Province of Bombay. It is the Krishna-gaila of the Kanheri
inscription (Rapson's Catalogue of Coins of the Andhra Dynasty, Intro., p. xxxiii). Kanishkapura-Kanikhpur or Kampur, ten miles to the south of Srinagar. It was founded
by Kanishka, who in 78 A.D., convened the last Buddhist synod, which gave rise to the Saka era. Kantaka-Dvipa-See Katadvipa. Kanţaka-Nagara-Katwa in the district of Burdwan in Bengal. It was visited by
Chaitanya (Chailanya-Bhagavata, Madhya, ch. 26). See Katadvipa. Kantaraka-See Aranyaka. Kantipuri --1. Identified by Cunningham with Kotwal, twenty-niles north of Gwalior
(Skanda P., Nagara Kh., ch. 47; Arch. s. Rep., Vol. II, p. 308). 2. According to Wright (Hist. of Nepal, pp. 9, 154), Kantipura or Kåntipuri is one of the ancient names of Kat. mandu in Nepal. 3. The Vishnu P. (Pt. IV, ch. 24) places it on the Ganges near
Allahabad. Kanva-Asrama-1. On the bank of the river Malini (the river Chuka) which flows
through the districts of Shaharanpur and Oudh; it was the hermitage of Kanva Muni who adopted the celebrated Sakuntala as his daughter (Kalidasa's Sakuntala). The hermitage of Kanva Muni was situated 30 miles to the west of Hurdwar, which is called Nadapit in the Satapatha-Brdhmana, xii, 5, 4, 13 (SBE., xliv, p. 399). 2. On the river Chambal, four miles to the south-east of Kota in Rajputana (Mbh., Vana, ch. 82; Agni P., ch. 109). This Kaņva-âsrama was also called Dharmmâranya. 3. On the banks
of the Narbada (Padma P., Uttara, ch. 94). Kanyakubja-1. Kanauj, on the west bank of the Kalinadi, about six miles above its
junction with the Ganges in the Farrakhabad district, United Provinces. It was the capital of the second or Southern Pañchâla during the Buddhist period (Dr. Rhys Davids' Buddhist India, p. 27) and also in the tenth century (Rajasekhara's Karpúramañjari, Act III). It was the capital of Gadhi Râjâ and birth-place of Visvâmitra (Ramayana, Bala K.). Buddha preached here on the instability of human existence. It was visited by Fa Hian and Hiuen Tsiang in the beginning of the fifth and the middle of the seventh centuries reg. pectively. Harshavardhana or Siladitya II was the reigning sovereign, when it was visited by Hiuen Tsiang in 636 A.D.; he inaugurated the Varsha era in 606 A.D., but according to Max Müller, Harshavardhana reigned from 610 to 650 A.D. He was the contemporary of Muhammad, whose flight from Medina in 622 A.D. gave rise to the Hijira era. In his Court flourished Banabhatta, the author of the Kadamvari and Harshacharita, Dhavaka, the real author of the Nagdnanda, and Chandraditya, the versifier of the Vessantara-Jataka. The celebrated Bhavabûti was in the court of Yasovar. mana of Kanauj (Stein's Rajatarangini, I, p. 134); he went to Kasmira with Lalitâditya (672 to 728 A.D.) after the conquest of Kanauj by the latter. Sriharsha wrote the Naishadha-charita at the request of Jayachandra. For the ancestors of Jayachandra, see copperplate grant in JASB., 1841, p. 98. Kanouj had been the capital of the Maukhari kings before Harshavardhana transferred his seat of government from Thêne vara to this place. The three great monasteries, in one of the chapels of which was enshrined a tooth relic of Buddha, were situated to the south-west of the town in what is now called LAIA Misar Tola (Cunningham: Arch. 8. Rep. I, p. 292). A celebrated temple of Vamana existed at Kanyakubja (Padma P., Srishti, ch: 35; Uttara, ch. 63). The Reng-mahal of the ancient Hindu palace is situated in the south-west angle of the triangular shaped
