Calinipaxa(कलिनिपक्ष) is a city in northern India described in ancient sources, and thought to be the modernKanouge (Kannauj), on theGanges. It was first made known to the West through the expeditions ofSeleucus Nicator to India in 303 BCE.
- "The other parts of the country [beyond theHydaspes, the farthest extent of Alexander's conquests] were discovered & surveyed by Seleucus Nicator: namely
- - from thence (theHydaspes) to theHesudrus 168 miles
- - to the riverIoames as much: and some copies add 5 miles more therto
- - from thence toGanges 112 miles
- - toRhodapha 119, and some say, that between them two it is no less than 325 miles.
- - From it to Calinipaxa, a great town 167 miles & a half, others say 265.
- - And to the confluent of the rivers Iomanes and Ganges, where both meet together, 225 miles, and many put thereto 13 miles more
- - from thence to the townPalibotta 425 miles
- - and so to the mouth of Ganges where he falleth into the sea 638 miles."
- Pliny the Elder, Natural history, Chap 21[1]
