Kaushambi district is a

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in the state of

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Manjhanpur Manjhanpur is a town, nagar palika and the district headquarters of Kaushambi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is very old Town. The nearest railway station is Bharwari which is from Manjhanpur.Bharwari is the main railway stat ...

is the district headquarters. The district was carved from Allahabad district on 4 April 1997.

Manauri bajar Manauri is a satellite township/neighborhood of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is a market, 18 km west of Allahabad city headquarter. It lies on the border of Allahabad and Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh. On this town, ...

connects Allahabad and Kaushambi districts by railway over a bridge on SH-95. Manjhanpur is south-west of

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on the north bank of the

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river, about from the city. It is surrounded by

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on the south, Pratapgarh district on the north, Allahabad district on the east and Fatehpur district on the west. Kaushambi is part of Allahabad division. The nearest railway station, in Bharwari, connects with

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, Allahabad,

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and

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Mythology and history

Kaushambi was the capital of the ancient Indian

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Mahajanapada, one of 16 such kingdoms. According to the

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, Vatsa was named after a Kāśī king. The ''

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'' and the ''

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'' attribute the founding of its capital' Kauśāmbī, to a Chedi prince (Kuśa or Kuśāmba). The Puranas state that after

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was washed away by the

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, the Bharata king Nicakṣu (great-great grandson of Janamejaya), abandoned the city and settled in Kauśāmbī. This is supported by the and the , attributed to Bhāsa. Both described the king, Udayana, as a scion of the Bhārata family (). The Puranas contain a list of Nicakṣu’s successors which ends with the king Kṣemaka.

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visited Kaushambi several times during the reign of Udayana in his effort to spread the

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, the

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and the

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''upāsaka''. According to the Chinese translation of the Buddhist canonical text , the first image of the Buddha (carved from Upāsaka and Upāsikā">''upāsaka''. According to the Chinese translation of the Buddhist canonical text , the first image of the Buddha (carved from sandalwood) was made at Udayana's request. The Puranas state that his four successors were Vahināra, DanḍapāṇI, Niramitra and Kṣemaka. Vatsa was later annexed by Avanti, and Maniprabha (Pradyota's great-grandson) ruled at Kauśāmbī as a prince of Avanti. Avanti (India)">Avanti, and Maniprabha (Pradyota's great-grandson) ruled at Kauśāmbī as a prince of Avanti. pillar there with inscriptions in Pali">Ashoka considered Kaushambi important, and placed a Pillars of Ashoka">pillar there with inscriptions in Pali; a Jain temple was also constructed. The pillar and temple still stand, and Vatsa is being excavated by archaeologists. Kaushambi district was carved from Allahabad district on 4 April 1997. In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Kaushambi one of India's 250 Poverty in India, most backward districts (out of a total of

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). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh receiving funds from the

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(BRGF).

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Kaushambi district had a

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of 1,599,596, (comparable to the population of

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and the US state of

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); this ranks it 313th of India's 640 districts. The district has a population density of . Its

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from 2001 to 2011 was 23.49 percent. Kaushambi has a

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of 905 females to 1,000 males, and a

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of 63.69 percent. Scheduled Castes made up 34.72% of the population. At the time of the

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, 98.57% of the population in the district spoke

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and 1.10%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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Transportation

Closest Airport to Kaushambi is in Allahabad airport which is 56 kilometers (34.7 miles) away from district headquarters and has flights to major destinations such as Delhi, Bangaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata etc. Major railway station is in neighboring

(56 km). Kaushambi district also has several railway stations: *

Sirathu railway station Sirathu is a town and Nagar Panchayat in Kaushambi district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. It is one of oldest town in Kaushambi district, Kaushambi district. The town has a population of approximately 270 ...

, Sirathu *

Bharwari railway station Bharwari is a small city and Municipal Board in the Kaushambi district located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India that includes 29 villages in its surrounding area. The Bharwari city is divided into 25 wards and the elections are held every ...

, Bharwari *

Manauri railway station Manauri railway station is situated in Manauri bajar, Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its station code is MRE. It is one of the major railway stations for Kaushambi district Kaushambi district is a district in the state of Uttar ...

Sports

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was a heavyweight boxer from Bharwari who was a silver medalist at the 1973 and 1975 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in

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and

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, respectively. Aslam won the Indian national championship in the heavyweight category for five consecutive years (1973–1978).

References

External links

Official website
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