Kannauj

"I'll tell you," answered Golden Skin.

The Prince and the Wife of the Merchant's Son In the country of Kannauj, there was a king named Virasena, and he made his son viceroy of a city called Virapura.

The prince was rich, handsome, and in the bloom of youth.

Passing through the streets of his city one day, he observed a very lovely woman, whose name was Lavanyavati, that is, the beautiful, the wife of a merchant's son.

So my great-grandfather, he started, uh, being a trader first, that, uh...

And we were born, everyone's born in Kannauj.

Kannauj?

Yeah.

So Kannauj-

That's in-

... is the birthplace of perfumery.

Okay.