[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.s2.6 # History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s2.6 History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s2.6 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s2.6) 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. - [Previous: c8.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s2.5) - [Next: c8.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s3.1) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s2) ## Linked texts (3) - [Rājataraṅgiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.4.133) — Kalhaṇa, Sanskrit - [Śivapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.siva) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s2.6) · Pramāṇa