4 
JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
No. I. 1862. 
Vestiges of Three Loyal Lines of Kanyabubja, or Kanauj; with 
Indications of its Literature.—JBy Fitz-Edwabd Hall, Esquire, 
D. C. L. Ox on. 
By no means alone among Indian cities of old renown, Kanauj has 
shrunk from the once proud position of a metropolis into a town whose 
extent and importance are now most inconsiderable. If the entire 
site of its ruins was ever peopled simultaneously, its habitancy may at 
one time have competed with that of London ; and yet our knowledge 
of its political vicissitudes, and even of its rulers and of its men of 
letters, is scarcely more than a dreary blank. It is my purpose, in 
the present brief paper, to collect, and, as far as possible, to connect, 
the detached facts, bearing on a portion of its mediaeval history, 
which recent research has rendered available. These' facts, in no 
small share, are of my own discovering. 
From the Harsh a-charita* of Bana, likewise author of the Kadam- 
bari, and of the Chandi-s 1 ataJcaf we learn, that, in his time, which is 
* For a page or two, here, I do little more than copy from my preface to the 
Vasavadatta, ; a publication not likely to meet the eyes of many readers of this 
Journal, or to be consulted for matters of historical fact. 
f For a story about this poem, see my preface to the Vasavadatta , p. 8. Whe¬ 
ther the Chandi-s'atatca was written in rivalry of Mayura’s Surya-s'ataJca, or 
whether the latter was prompted by the former, each of the compositions reminds 
one vividly of the other. I have seen but a single copy of the Chandi-s'ataka; and 
that was very incorrect. It contains one hundred and one stanzas, and is at¬ 
tributed, in the epigraph, to Bana Bhatta. The beginning and end are sub¬ 
joined, without amendment : 
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