HASTINAPUR, an ancient city of British India, in the Meerut district of the United Provinces, lying on the banks of a former bed of the Ganges, 22 m. N.E. of Meerut. It formed the capital of the great Pandava kingdom, celebrated in the Mahab harata, and probably one of the earliest Aryan settlements out side the Punjab. Tradition points to a group of shapeless mounds as the residence of the Lunar princes of the house of Bharata whose deeds are commemorated in the great national epic. The town was finally swept away by a flood of the Ganges, and the capital was transferred to Kausambi.