The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.179

c5.179

Harṣavardhana Śīlāditya of Thāṇeśar, succeeds his brother Rājyavardhana II: reigned, according to Chinese accounts, until about A.D. 648. Harṣa was the most famous monarch of his line, and extended his sovereignty over the whole of Northern India. Inscriptions record his invasion of Valabhī between A.D. 633 and 640, in the reign of Dhruvasena II who fled for refuge to Dadda IV of Bharoch, from whence he submitted to Harṣa and married his granddaughter. Nepāl was conquered by him and his era introduced there shortly before the reign of Amśuvarman, to which conquest allusion is made by Bāṇa in the Śrīharṣacharita, and Chālukya inscriptions record Harṣa's defeat at the hands of Pulikeśin II, when striving to extend his dominion beyond the Narmadā.