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THANESAR (=" place of the god ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THANESAR (="
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place of the
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god ")  , an
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ancient
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town of
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British
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India, in
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Karnal
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district of the
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Punjab, on the
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river Saraswati,
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loo m. by
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rail N. of
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Delhi: pop . (1901) 5066 . As the centre of the
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tract called Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata, it has always been a
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holy
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place, and was in the seventh
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century the
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capital of
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King Harshavardhana, who ruled over all
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northern India . The bathing-
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fair held here on the occasion of a
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solar
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eclipse is said to be attended by
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half a million pilgrims .

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