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Thanesar through time

Now Thanesar, Kurukshetra district, Haryana

Also known as: Sthanvishvara (the ancient name, the Pushyabhuti capital)

  1. Theme 11 · 250 to 600 CE; the Western Gangas run on to 1000

    Contemporary powers: Vakatakas, Kadambas, Western Gangas, early Pallavas

    Seat of the Pushyabhutis, emerging in the sixth century

  2. Theme 12b · 606 to 1036 CE

    North India: Harsha, Palas, Pratiharas

    Modern Thanesar, the Pushyabhuti base and Harsha's first capital

  3. Theme M2 · 711 to 1186 CE

    The advent of Islam and the first Turkish invasion

    Sthanvishvara, raided in 1014, its Chakrasvamin idol taken to Ghazni; retaken from the Ghaznavids in 1043, by Firishta's account