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Kanyakubja (Kannauj)

Also called: Mahodaya, Kusumapura, Kannauj

The ancient city on the Ganga now called Kannauj. Both the Ramayana and Xuanzang explain its name as the city of the crooked or hunchbacked maidens; the Ramayana says it was first called Mahodaya, Xuanzang says Kusumapura.

Sources: The Ramayan of Valmiki, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1870-74); Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Xuanzang, tr. Samuel Beal (1884) · see Kanyakubja (Kannauj)'s web

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The hundred daughters of Kushanabha and the Wind
From the epics · 2 tellings

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The Ramayan of Valmiki, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1870-74) § 1.34 Primary text (translation)
Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Xuanzang, tr. Samuel Beal (1884) § 5.1 Primary text (translation)