Samkashya

Samkashya (Sanskrit: सांकाश्य, Romanised: Sāṃkāśya^[1]) is an ancient legendary city or kingdom mentioned in the Indian text Ramayana. According to the Hindu texts Ramayana and Puranas, the city of Sāṃkāśya was won by the King Janaka of the Mithila Kingdom during the war between the two Kingdoms initiated by the King Sudhanvan of the Sāṃkāśya city. It is said that the King Sudhanvan of the Sāṃkāśya city attacked the kingdom of Mithila. Then the King Janaka of the Mithila Kingdom countered the attack and in the war he killed the King Sudhanvan of Sāṃkāśya Kingdom. After winning the Kingdom of Sāṃkāśya, he crowned his brother Kuśadhvaja as King of the kingdom. The epic Ramayana refers Sāṃkāśya as the capital town of the King Kushadhwaja.^[2][3] After becoming the King of Sāṃkāśya, he was also called as Samkashyanatha translates as "Lord of Sāṃkāśya".^[4]