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Indraprastha | |
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| Khandavaprastha | |
top: burning of Khandava Forest to build Indraprastha (Mahabharata scene, as depicted at Banteay Srei) bottom: medieval fort Purana Qila built on the possible site of ancient Indraprastha | |
  Indraprastha Purana Qila Location of Purana Qila, proposed as possible site of Indraprastha  Indraprastha Purana Qila Indraprastha Purana Qila (India) | |
| Coordinates: 28°36′34″N 77°14′39″E / 28.60944°N 77.24417°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Delhi |
| Current Name | Delhi |
| Founded by | Pandava |
| Named after | Indradev |
Indraprastha (Sanskrit: इन्द्रप्रस्थ, [in̪d̪ɾɐpɾɐst̪ʰə]) (lit. "Plain of Indra"[1] or "City of Indra") is a city cited in ancient Indian literature as a constituent of the Kuru Kingdom. It was designated the capital of the Pandavas, a brotherly quintet in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The city is sometimes also referred to as Khandavaprastha or Khandava Forest, the epithet of a forested region situated on the banks of Yamuna river which, going by the Hindu epic Mahabharata, was cleared by Krishna and Arjuna to build the city.[2] Under the Pali form of its name, Indapatta, it is also mentioned in Buddhist texts as the capital of the Kuru Mahajanapada.
The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in the Mahabharata; however, excavations in the area have revealed no signs of an ancient fortified city to match the epic's described grandeur, as only a limited quantity of Iron Age pottery shards were found, and some few artifacts and structural remains of Maurya to Kushan period settlements (see below). It must be remembered that coordinating material archaeological culture with bardic literature is methodologically almost always impossible.[3]
- ^ Upinder Singh (25 September 2017). Political Violence in Ancient India. Harvard University Press. p. 401. ISBN 978-0-674-98128-7.
- ^ C. N. Nageswara Rao (13 November 2015). Telling Tales: For Rising Stars. Partridge Publishing India. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-1-4828-5924-9.
- ^ Singh, Upinder (2015). A history of ancient and early medieval India: from the Stone Age to the 12th century (7. Impression ed.). Delhi: Pearson. p. 20. ISBN 978-81-317-1677-9.
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