Sonipat
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Sonipat सोनीपत ਸੋਨੀਪਤ Sonepat |
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 Sonipat
Sonipat
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| Coordinates: 28°59′24″N 77°01′19″E / 28.990°N 77.022°ECoordinates: 28°59′24″N 77°01′19″E / 28.990°N 77.022°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| Region | North India |
| State | Haryana |
| District | Sonipat |
| Government | |
| • M.P. | Ramesh Kaushik (BJP) |
| • M.L.A. | Kavita Jain (BJP) |
| Elevation | 224.15 m (735.40 ft) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi, Haryanvi |
| • Second Official | Haryanvi, Punjabi |
| Time zone | Indian Standard Time (UTC+5.30) |
| PIN | 131001 |
| Telephone Code | +91-130 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-HR |
| Vehicle registration | HR-10, HR-69(Commercial Vehicles), HR-99(Temporary) |
| Sex Ratio | 1.19 ♂/♀ |
| Literacy | 73% |
| Website | www |
Sonipat & Sonipat City also spelled as Sonepat, (founded as Swarnaprastha or Suvarnaprastha by the five Pandava brothers during the times of Mahabharata war) is a town and a Municipal Corporation in Haryana state of India. It comes under the National Capital Region and is around 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Delhi. It is also around 214 km(128 miles) southwest of Chandigarh, the state capital. The Yamuna River runs along the eastern boundary.
On 22 December 1972, Sonipat was carved out of Rohtak and made a full-fledged district.
According to legend, Sonipat was earlier known as Sonprastha, which later on became 'Svarnaprastha' (स्वर्णप्रस्थ, lit. golden city). Later, the name Svarnaprastha changed into Svarnpath, and then to its current form, Sonipat/Sonepat.
Reference to the city comes in the epic Mahabharata, Sonipat was founded as Swarnaprastha by the five Pandava brothers. It was one of the five prasthas or towns demanded by Yudhishthira as the price of peace from Duryodhana and in lieu of the kingdom of Hastinapur. The other four villages were Panprastha (Panipat), Baghprastha (Baghpat), Tilprastha (Tilpat) and Indraprastha. Another legend ascribed it to Raja Soni, the thirteenth descendent of Arjuna, one of the Pandava brothers. Khanda, Sonipat village is very ancient village in Sonipat.
Though both are without supporting evidence but it had been noted much earlier by the grammarian Pāṇini in his celebrated sutra-style treatise on Sanskrit grammar Ashtadhyayi. The town was therefore already in existence before 600 B.C.
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