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Feroze of Delhi, who named it after his cousin Fakiruddin Jowna. In the fifteenth century Khan Jahan, vizier of Sultan Mahommed Shah of Delhi, during the minority of the latter's son, assumed the title of Sultan Sharki or king of the East, and taking possession of Bihar, fixed his residence at Jaunpur (Hamilton's East India Gazetteer). Jaunpore became the centre of learning at the time of Ibrahim Sharki ; and Sher Shah received his education in one of its colleges. 2. Another Yavanapura is mentioned in the Mahdbharata (Sabha P., ch. 30) as being situated on the south of Indraprastha and conquered
by Sahadeva. Perhaps it is the same as Yavana-nagara or Junagad. Yayatinagara ---According to Dr. Fleet Yay&tinagara is the ancient name of Kataka in
Orissa (Ep. Ind., Vol. III, pp. 323-359, JA8B., 1906, p. 7; Pavanadata, v. 26). Yayatipura--1, Jajmau, three miles from Cawn pore, where the ruins of a fortare pointed
out as the remains of the fort of Raja Yayati (see sakambhart). But the fort is said to have been built by Raja Jijat Chandravamsi, one of the ancestors of the Chandels. The temple of Siddhinatha Mahadeva is at a short distance from the fort. It was an impor. tant place in the tenth or eleventh century before Cawnpore became celebrated as a town (Alberuni's India, Dr. Sachan's trans., vol. 1, p. 200). 2. Jajpar in Orissa (Yule). See
Yajnapura ; same as Yayatpara. Yessaval-Ahmedabad was founded on the site of the ancient city of Yessaval by Ahmed
Shah of Guzerat in 1412 (Thornton's Gazetteer). Yessaval is a corruption of As&wal or ancient Asapalli (Antiquities of Kathiaroad and Kachh, by Burgess ; Bomb. Gaz., I, pt. I, p. 170). Ahmedabad was also formerly called Karpavati (Fergusson's Hist. of Indian
and Eastern Architecture, p. 527). Yoni-dvara-A sacred place in the Brahma-yoni hill at Gaya, from which the name of the
hill is derived (Padma P., Svarga, ch. 19). Yoni-- Tirtha Samo as Bhimisthana. Yugandhara-A country near Kurukshetra (Mbh., Virat, oh. 1). It appears to have been
situated on the west bank of the Yamuna and south of Kurukshetra (Ibid., Vana, ch. 128). Yuktavent-See Muktaven.
