C., attained the height of glory and renown. It was occupied by
Cyrus in 539 B.C., and decayed gradually, but was still a place of
importance in the time of Alexander the Great. The eponymous hero,
Ninus, is of course purely mythical. The results of modern research
will be found in the _Encycl. Brit._, 11th ed., 1910, in the articles
'Babylon' (Sayce), 'Babylonia and Assyria' (Sayce and Jastrow), and
'Nineveh' (Johns). See also, ibid., 'Cyrus' (Meyer).
6. Kanauj, now in the Farrukhabad district of the United Provinces,
was sacked by Mahmud of Ghazni in January, A.D. 1019. The name of
Mahmud's capital may be spelled Ghaznih, Ghazni, or Ghaznin.
(Raverty, in _J.A.S.B._, Part I, vol. lxi (1892), p. 156, note.)
7. 'Pan', the well-known Indian condiment (_ante_, chapter 29, note
10). 'Opera girls' is a rather whimsical rendering of the more usual
phrase 'nach (nautch) girls', or 'dancing girls'. The traditional
numbers cited must not be accepted as historical facts. See V. A.
Smith, 'The History of the City of Kanauj' (_J.R.A.S._, 1908, pp.
767-93).
8. This statement is too general. Benares, Allahabad (Prayag), and
many other important Hindoo cities, were never deserted, and
continued to be populous through all vicissitudes.
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