Ancient History of the Deccan c4.s3.20

c4.s3.20

We do not know if the Yuvarāja Divakārasēna ascended the throne. We only know for certain that a son of Rudrasēna II. reigned under the name Pravarasēna II. The poet Bana in his introduction to Harshacharita mentions, among the most famous poets that had preceeded him, Pravarasēna who was the author of a work called Sētukavya. The capital of Pravarasēna was called Pravarapura and was probably founded by that king. It is certain that Pravarasēna II. reigned in the south of Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) in the country in which we now find the towns of Seuni (Seoni) and Elichpur (Ilichpur). The Narbadā separated his kingdom from that of the Guptas. Chammak (Charmāṅka) is situated on the banks of Mahānadī Gupta Insc., page 241). We have said that the Vākāṭka empire extended further south. In 450 A. D. the Vākāṭaka empire had the following boundaries : in the north it was separated by the Narbadā from the kingdom of Ujjain where reigned the illustrious emperor Kumāra-Gupta I. In the east was the vassal state of Raypur of which we shall speak further : the king Mahā-Sudēva had Śarabhapura for his capital. In the south-east was situated the kingdom of the Vishṇukuṇḍins over which Mādhavavarman I was reigning at Vēṅgī. In the south west, the river Bhīmā separated the Vākāṭakas empire from that of the Kādambas whose king Śāntivarman was the " master of the entire Karṇāṭa region";