The capital of the Kurus, located on the banks of the Ganga, east of what is now Delhi.

one of two classical Hindu epics; a great collection of poetry worked into and around a central heroic narrative (eight times as large as the Iliad and Odyssey combined)

Hastinapura (Sanskrit: हस्‍तिनापुर) (Hastinapur in Hindi) is the capital of the kingdom of the Kauravas, belonging to the Kuru dynasty of kings. The throne of this city was the prize over which the Kurukshetra War of the epic Mahabharata was fought. All incidents in the epic Mahabharata have taken place in this city of Hastinapura.