Hastinapur

Archeological site about sixty miles
northeast of Delhi. This site has yielded
pottery and other artifacts believed to
be from the ninth to sixth centuries
B.C.E., which would make them contemporary with the latest parts of the Vedas,
the earliest Hindu religious texts. In the
Mahabharata, the later of the two great
Hindu epics, Hastinapur is the capital of
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Hastinapur
the Kauravas, a group of one hundred
brothers who are the epic’s antagonists.
Although the name of the site and the
place named in the epic matches, nothing has been found to provide a connection between these two.