JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
Nos. Ill & IV.—188S. 
Notes on the Fatehpur District. N. W. P.—By F. S. Growse, C. I. E. 
(With a Plate.) 
In order to distinguish it from other places bearing the same name 
—which is an extremely common one in the 1ST. W. P.—the capital of the 
Fatehpur District is very frequently designated Fatehpur-Haswa. The 
latter member of the compound is the name of a small decayed town,* 
about 7 miles distant, which is now of no importance whatever; but is 
traditionally represented as the oldest inhabited site in the neighbour¬ 
hood. Its eponymous founder is said to have been a Raja Hans-dhvaj, 
whose two brothers, Mor-dhvaj and Sankh-dhvaj, are also locally com¬ 
memorated by the names of two adjoining villages, Moraun and San- 
khaun. The Raja’s second son, Ran-bijay, had the hardihood to capture 
the horse that had been turned loose by the Pandavs, after their great 
sacrifice at Hastinapur; and they, taking this as a challenge, at once 
came down upon him and slew both him and his elder brother, Siva- 
dharna.f On their death, their sister Champavatl inherited the throne. 
She is said to have re-named the town after herself, Champaka-puri, and 
dying childless, to have bequeathed it to Brahmans, whose descendants 
held it for many generations. 
# Gen. Cunning-ham sub verbo in Vol. XVII of the Archaeological Survey gives it 
a population of about 10,000, which is very much over the mark. The return by 
the last census was 4,197 only. 
f This name is doubtful. It is also given as Sudhanwa, or Surat. 
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