Sunet

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Sunet

Ruins in the District and tahsil of Ludhiana, Punjab, situated in 30° 53' N. and 75° 50' E., 3 miles south-west of Ludhiana town. A large mound clearly marks the ancient site of an important city. Cunningham concludes from the coins here discovered that the town of Sunet must have been in existence before the Christian era, and that it continued to flourish during the whole period of the Indo- Scythians and of their successors who used Sassanian types, down to the time of Samanta Deva, the Brahman king of Kabul or Ohind. On the other hand, from the absence of coins of the Tomar Rajas of Delhi and of the Muhammadan dynasties, it is inferred that Sunet was destroyed during the invasions of Mahmud Ghazni, and never reoccupied.

[Archaeological Survey Reports, vol. xiv, p. 65.]