Kanauj

Kanauj, one of the great legendary centres of Aryan civilisation in India, to which the Hinduism of Lower Bengal attributes its origin, stood originally on the Ganges, 65 miles N.W. of Lucknow. At present the site consists of a vast number of ruins, extending over the area of five villages, about 4 miles from the Ganges, the river having slightly altered its bed. The most remarkable buildings are Mohammedan mausoleums. Its most prosperous era was the 6th century; early in the 11th it fell before the sultans of Ghazni. Among the ruins there is a modern town of some 17,000 inhabitants.