Indraprastha

The name given to the earliest of the
cities built on the site now occupied
by modern Delhi; Indraprastha was
built on the banks of the Yamuna
River, in the southeastern part of
modern Delhi.
In the Mahabharata, the later of the
two great Hindu epics, Indraprastha is
named as the capital of the Pandavas,
the five brothers who are the epic’s protagonists. According to the epic, the
city is built after their uncle, King
Dhrtarashtra, has divided his kingdom
between the Pandavas and his own
sons, the Kauravas.
Although the epic is replete with
descriptions of Indraprastha, there is
little hard connection between the
archeological site and events described
in the epic.