Kampil

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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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Kampil

Village in the Kaimganj tahsil of Farrukhabad District, United Provinces, situated in 27 degree 35' N. and 79 degree 14' E., 28 miles north-west of Fatehgarh. Population (1901), 2,366. Kampil is mentioned in the Mahabharata as the capital of South Panchala, under king Drupada. Here his daughter, Draupadi, married the five Pandava brethren. The villagers still show the mound where the Raja's castle stood, and the place, a few miles away, where the swayamvara, or ceremony at which Draupadi chose her husband, took place. At the end of the thirteenth century, Kampil appears as a nest of highway robbers, against whom the emperor Ghiyas-ud-din Balban marched a force in person, and built here a fort. The town and its vicinity constantly gave trouble in later years, but the Rathor inhabi- tants were gradually suppressed. West of the town stretches a long series of ruins in which ancient coins are found. There are a fine Jain temple and a primary school with about 60 pupils.