A History of Assam c8.18

c8.18

Hiuen Tsiang's visit to Bhāskara Varman. Kāmarupa, sent messengers to invite him to his capital. He at first declined to go, but was induced to change his mind by Silabhadra, "master of Shāstras," who pointed out that it was his duty to propagate the true law, and that he ought not to neglect the opportunity offered by this invitation from a king who listened to "the teaching of heretics." From Paundra Vardhana "going east 900 *li* or so (about 150 miles), crossing the great river Kalotu, we come to the country of Kāmarupa," which Hiuen Tsiang describes as follows:—