History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c15.s2.t16.23

c15.s2.t16.23

Avanti, of course, denoted Malava or the country round Ujjain; and Gandhāra presumably designates the Peshawar district with certain adjoining regions along the Kabul river and Rawalpindi in the northern Panjab. The Kīras occupied territory in the Kangra valley, where their name is preserved in Kīragrāma, the village in which the famous temple of Vaidyanātha stood⁴.