There are Doctors, poets, philosophers, Soothsayers(foretellers), men who observe bird flight, & men who calculate Nativities(horoscope at time of birth) in the great city of Kanuge(Kannauj). Abu Zayd, an arab traveller on Pratihara Empire's capital. He visited it in 9th century.
Ferishta describes Mahmud Ghaznavi's reaction to seeing Kannauj in 1016: "He there saw a city which raised its head to the skies, and which in strength and structure might justly boast to have no equal." Pratihara's capital Kannauj was just superior to any other city.