A History of Assam c8.39

c8.39

The next line mentioned in the copper-plates is that of Pralambha, the father of Harjjara, who may be assumed to have risen to power about 800 A.D., *i.e.*, thirty years before the time of Harjjara's inscription on the rock near Tezpur. The same date may perhaps be taken as that of the extinction of Sāla Stambha's dynasty, but this is somewhat uncertain. It might be inferred from the Tezpur plates that Pralambha came immediately after Sri Harisha, but the reading of this inscription is not very trustworthy, and it is possible that the latter is identical with Harsha Deb, the father of Jay Deb, king of Nepal, who is referred to in a copper-plate of that monarch prepared in 759 A.D.* The said Harsha Deb is described as the descendant of Bhagadatta, and, although he is said to have ruled over Gaur, Orissa and other countries this may be merely an instance of the poetic exaggeration which was so frequently indulged in by the scribes and panegyrists of early Hindu kings.