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From the epics · 2 tellings · contested

The hundred daughters of Kushanabha and the Wind

Vayu bends the hundred daughters of a king who refuse to marry without their father's leave; the city is named Kanyakubja for them.

Vayu, Kushanabha, The hundred daughters of Kushanabha, Brahmadatta of Kampilya

North India