History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s2.6

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² “Yad Vāyunā ca tāḥ kanyāḥ tatra kubjikṛtā purā, Kānyakubjamiti khyātaṁ tataḥ prabhṛiti tat puram.” (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, (North-Western Recension, ed. Bhagvad Datta, 1931), Bālakāṇḍa, canto 33, verses 34-35). Yuan Chwang narrates a similar story with minor variations (cf. Watters, I, p. 341; Beal, I, pp. 207-09). See also Śiva Purāṇa, Dharmasaṁhitā, ch. 11, verses 39-52 (Calcutta, 1890); Kalhaṇa’s Rājatarangiṇī, ed. Durgāprasāda (Bombay, 1892), Vol. I, Bk. IV, verse 133, (Stein’s Translation, p. 132); Dowson’s Hindu Classical Dictionary (1914), pp. 149, 344, etc.