The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.45

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The later list contains the names of twenty-nine Pūru kings, who lived after the war. They reigned first at Hastināpura, the ancient capital of the Kuru princes, which is usually identified with a ruined site in the Meerut District 'on the old bed of the Ganges, lat. 29° 9′ N., long. 78° 3′ E.' (Pargiter, *Mārk. Pur.*, p. 355); but when this city was destroyed by an inundation of the Ganges in the reign of Nichakshus, the successor of Adhisīmakṛishṇa, they removed the seat of their rule to Kauçāmbī, possibly the present Kosam in the Allahābād District. Another of their capitals was Indraprastha in the Kuru plain, the ancient city of the Pāṇḍu princes: it is the modern Indarpat, near Delhi. The Pūrus therefore, with their capitals in the north, east, and west, ruled over a large portion of the present province of Agra from the Meerut Division on the north to the Benares Division on the south-east. The dynasty came to an end with Kshemaka, the fourth king to reign after Udayana, the contemporary of the Buddha (p. 310)¹.