[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937) › c15.s2.t6 # History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c15.s2.t6: Foundation of a town History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c15.s2.t6 - **Language:** English ### Foundation of a town ### [c15.s2.t6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6.1) Yaśovarman is credited with having founded a town in his name in Magadha,¹ and this, I suppose, he did either to commemorate his victory over the "lord of Magadha and Gauḍa," or to mark the site of the battle. Such a practice was not uncommon in ancient times, and we may recall that Alexander similarly marked his victory by the foundation of two towns, one named Nikaia situated on the battlefield; and the other called Boukephala, located at a point whence Alexander started to cross the Hydaspes.² Yaśovarman's town has been identified by Cunningham with the present town of Bihar,³ but Kielhorn was of opinion that preferably Ghosrawa was its modern representative.⁴ We get a glimpse of its importance during the Pāla period also, for it was to the \*Vihāra\* of Yaśovarmapura that Viradeva went after visiting the diamond throne at Mahābodhi (Bodh Gayā), and stayed there for a long time enjoying king Devapāla's patronage.⁵ ### [c15.s2.t6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6.2) ¹ \*Arch. Surv. Ind. Rep.\*, III, pp. 135-36; XV, 164. ### [c15.s2.t6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6.3) ² \*Early Hist. of India\*, 4th ed. pp. 74-75. ### [c15.s2.t6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6.4) ³ \*Arch. Surv. Ind. Rep.\*, III, pp. 120, 135-36; VIII, p. 76. ### [c15.s2.t6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6.5) ⁴ \*Ind. Ant.\*, XVII (1888), pp. 309, 311, note 30. ### [c15.s2.t6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6.6) ⁵ \*Ibid.\* --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c15.s2.t6) · Pramāṇa