History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s6.8

c8.s6.8

The next mention of Kanauj is to be found in the *Mahābhāṣya* of the celebrated grammarian Patañjali usually assigned to circa 150 B. C.⁴ He gives the form Āhicchatrī and Kānyakubjī in the sense of a woman born at these two towns respectively.⁵ The use of the adjective derived from the name of the town thus clearly shows that Kānyakubja was a well-known place in the second century B. C. and it must have been founded considerably earlier.