CANOUJ, in the N.W. Provinces, in lat. 27° 2' 30" N., long. 79° 58' E., with a population of 17,093. It is said to have existed from 1000 B.C., and to have been founded by two sons of Cush, who named it Mahadya, afterwards changed to Kanya kubja. It was not unfrequently called Gadhipoora Jye Chand. It was held by the Rahtor dynasty from the close of the 5th to that of the 12th century, and terminated with Jye-Chand, A.D. 1194. In S. 1268 (A.D. 1212), eighteen years after its fall, Seoji and Saitram, grandsons of Jye-Chand, abandoned Canouj, and with two hundred retainers journeyed westward to the desert,—according to some of the chronicles, on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Dwarica, but accord ing to others, to carve their fortunes in fresh fields. Seoji, on the banks of the Looni, exterminated, at a feast, the Dabeys of Mehwo, and soon after killed Moliesdas, chief of the Gohils of Kherdhur. One of the chronicles asserts that it was Asothama, the successor of Seoji, who conquered 'the land of Kher ' from the Gohils; and he established his brother Soning in Eedur, a small principality on the frontiers of Cujerat, appertaining, as did Mehwo, to the Dabey race ; it was during the mAtfim, a period of mourning for one of its princes, that the young Raptor destroyed the clan. His descendants are distinguished as the Katondia Raptor. The third brother, Uja, carried his forays as far as the extremity of the Surashtra Peninsula, where he decapitated Beekurnsi, the Chawara chieftain of Okamundala, and established himself. For this act his branch became known
as the Badhail ; and the Badhail are still in con siderable number in that farthest track of ancient Hinduism. Its wars with Dehli accelerated the ruin of Hindu independence. This kingdom appears to have been called Panchala. It seems to have been a long but narrow territory, extending on the east to Nepal (which it included), and on the west along the Chambal and Banas as far as Ajmir. The identity of Canouj and Panchala is assumed in Menu 11. 19. Its limits, as assigned in the Mahabliarata, are made out by connecting notes (vol. iii. p. 135, vol. iv. p. 142) in the Oriental Magazine. These boundaries, enlarged a little on the south and on the west, are the same as those assigned by Colonel Tod to the same kingdom at the time of the Mahomedan invasion. Mr. James Fergusson (p. 735) gives the following rulers in the Christian era— Vasa Deva. - Reign. A.D.
Vikramaditya I. of Ujjain, . . 25 470 ? Sri Harsha, . . . . . 20 495 Vikramaditya it., the Great, . . 35 515 Siladitya I. of Malwa, . . . 30 550 Prabhu Kara, . . . . . 25 580 Raja Verddhana, . . . . 5 605 Siladitya II. of Canouj, . . . 40 610 Died and troubles commence, . 648-650 —Tod's Rajasthan, ii. p. 13 ; As. Jl. 1817; Elphin stone's History of India, i, p. 402 ; Ferg. p. 735.