Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s4.6

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² Mention is made of a Kantipurī in the *Skanda Purāṇa* (*Nāgarakhaṇḍa*, ch. 47, 4ff). In the story narrated in the text a petty prince of Kāntipurī ‘marries a princess of Daśārṇa, the valley of the Dhasan, in Eastern Malwā which, in the time of the *Meghadūta*, included Vidiśā. Kāntipurī probably lay not far from the last-mentioned city.