The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.180

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He is the hero of Bāṇa's Śrīharṣacharita, and was himself a poet and the reputed author of several poems. Hiuen Tsang visited his court, and was present at the religious convocation held by him at Prayāga A.D. 643. The pilgrim represents him as an ardent Buddhist, but Harṣa, in his Madhuban grant, calls 606 himself a Śaiva.—Inscriptions: Baṅkshera inscription, Saṁ. 22, EI. iv, 208. Madhuban copper-plates, Saṁ. 25, EI. i, 67 ff. Sonpat Seal, CI. iii, 231. IA. xii, 234; xiii, 73, 420, n. 37; xvii, 196; xix, 40, 151; xx, 119. Beal’s *Si-yu-ki*, i, 209 ff. Stan. Julien, *Mémoires sur les Contrées Occidentales*, 247–265, or IA. vii, 196. Renaud, *Fragments Arabes et Persans*, 139. Hall’s *Vāsavadattā*, 51. JBRAS. x, 38. Bendall, *Catal. Buddhist Sanskrit MSS.* xli. JBA. lviii, chart, p. 100. Chavannes, *Mémoire*, 19, n. 2.