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The Trigarta capital was moved from Jalandhara to Nagarkot (Kangra) in 1070 A.D. due to constant contact in Jalandhar with various ambitious invading forces who usually were en route to central India. [16] Ferishta mentioned another account of the 1st century A.D. when the king of Kanauj, Raja Ram Deo, went on conquest and overran the hills. He ...
The city may be named after Jalandhara, a Nath Guru who was from here. [citation needed] The city was founded by Devasya Verma as mentioned in the Vedas.Other possibilities include that it was the capital of the kingdom of Lava, son of Rama or that the name derives from the vernacular term Jalandhar, meaning area inside the water, i.e., tract lying between the two rivers Satluj and Beas. [4]
Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is the city of Jalandhar . Before the Partition of India , Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division , with constituent districts Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur , Ludhiana , Ferozepur and Kangra .
Jalandhara (Sanskrit: जलन्धर, lit. he who holds water), also known as Chalantarana (Sanskrit: चलन्तरण, lit. he who walks and swims) is an asura in Hinduism.
Nurmahal is situated 16 miles south of Jalandhar, 25 miles east south-east of Sultanpur and 13 miles west of Pahlor. [4] The serai was built on a site measuring 551 square feet. It had octagonal towers at the corners. The western gateway, called Lahore gate is double-storied and built in red sandstone.
District-wise Teacher-Pupil Ratio of Class 1 to 5 in 2017 (As of 30 September) [18] District Ratio Hoshiarpur: 15 Rupnagar: 16 Fatehgarh Sahib: 16 SAS Nagar: 17 SBS Nagar: 18 Gurdaspur: 18 Pathankot: 19 Kapurthala: 20 Faridkot: 20 Sri Muktsar Sahib: 20 Jalandhar: 21 Sangrur: 21 Patiala: 22 Ludhiana: 24 Bathinda: 24 Barnala: 26 Fazilka: 27 ...
The Purananuru is the most important Tamil corpus of Sangam era courtly poems, [8] and it has been a source of information on the political and social history of ancient Tamil Nadu. According to Hart and Heifetz, the Purananuru provides a view of the Tamil society before large-scale Indo-Aryan influences affected it. [2]
Their capital was Kotesvara or Kachchhesvara. Mahabharat Chapter 52. A. Cunningham has also mentioned about them in the archaeological survey report V page 155 and also his book Ancient Geography of India at page 254. Kotesvara was a celebrated place of pilgrimage on the western shore of Kachh, close to Indus and to the great ocean.