at 
1865.) Report of the Archeological Survey. 203) 
er about A. D. 560, it was given by a Kayath to a body of Brahmans. 
They add also that the population of the village of Paor-Kheria is 
known to have been wholly Brahman until a very recent period. 
> 
X.—KANOJ. 
250. Of the great city of Kanoj, which for many hundred years 
was the Hindu Capital of Northern India, the existing remains are few 
and unimportant. In A. D. 1016, when Mahmud of Ghazni approach- 
ed Kanoj, the historian relates that “‘ he there saw a city which raised 
its head tothe skies, and which in strength and structure might justly 
boast to have no equal.’ Just one century earlier, or in A. D. 915, 
Kanoj is mentioned by Masudi as the Capital of one of the Kings of 
India, and about A. D. 900 Abu Zaid, on the authority of Ibn 
Wahab, calls “ Kaduge, a great city in the kingdom of Gozar.” At 
a still earlier date, in A. D. 634, we have the account of the Chinese 
pilgrim Hwen Thsang, who describes Kanoj as being 20 li or 34 miles, 
in length, and 4 or 5 li or ? of amile, in breadth, The city was sur- 
rounded by strong walls and deep ditches, and was washed by the 
Ganges along its eastern face. The last fact is corroborated by Fa 
Hian, who states that the city touched the River Heng (Ganges) when 
he visited itin A. D. 400. Kanoj is also mentioned by Ptolemy, 
about A. D. 140, as KavoyiZa. But the earliest notice of the place is 
undoubtedly the old familiar legend of the Puranas, which refers the 
Sanskrit name of Kanya Kubja, or the ‘“ hump-backed maiden,” to the 
curse of the sage Vayu on the hundred daughters of Kusandba. 
251. At the time of Hwen Thsang’s visit, Kanoj was the Capital 
of Raja Harsha Vardhana, the most powerful Sovereign in Northern 
India. The Chinese pilgrim calls him a Fei-she, Varsya, but it seems 
_ probable that he must have mistaken the Vaisa, or Bais, Rajput, for 
the Vaisya, or Bais, which is the name of the mercantile class of the 
_ Hindus; otherwise Harsha Vardhana’s connexion by marriage with 
“the Rajput families of Malwa and Balabhi would have been quite 
impossible. Baiswara, the country of the Bais Rajputs, extends from 
the neighbourhood of Lucknow to Khara Manikpur, and thus com-~- 
prizes nearly the whole of Southern Oudh. The Bais Rajputs claim 
descent from the famous Sdlivdéhan, whose capital is said to have been 
Daundia Khera, on the north bank of the Ganges. Their close 
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