[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) › c8.s1.2 # History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s1.2 History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s1.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s1.2) ¹ The importance of Kanauj in ancient times was probably due to its strategic advantages. The city stood on a cliff on the right bank of the Ganges, which was then the highway of commerce and communication, and it must have, therefore, been a convenient centre for river traffic in the upper Doab \[see Samuel Beal, \*The Travels of Fa-hian (Fo-kuo-ki)\*, ch. XVIII, p. xliii; Thomas Watters, \*On Yuan Chwang (Si-yu-ki)\*, Vol. I (1904), p. 341; \*Bāla-Rāmāyaṇa\* of Rājaśekhara, Act X, p. 306, ed. Govindadeva Śāstrī (Benares, 1869). The river, however, now flows at a distance of some miles to the east (see \*Gazetteer of Farrukhabad\*, p. 217; \*Imperial Gazetteer of India\*, XIV, p. 370\]. Besides, as observed by Cunningham, "the situation is a commanding one, and before the use of the cannon the height alone must have made Kanauj a strong and important position" (Cunningham's \*Ancient Geography of India\*, ed. S. N. Majumdar, (Calcutta, 1924), p. 436). - [Previous: c8.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s1.1) - [Next: c8.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s2.1) - [Up: c8.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bālarāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.rama.balaramayana) — Rājaśekhara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s1.2) · Pramāṇa