The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c13.206

v1.c13.206

“The story of king Harṣa, which has seen the rise of all enterprises and tells of all failures; which brings to light all (kinds of) settled plans and yet shows the absence of all policy; which displays an excessive (assertion of the) ruling power and yet has witnessed excessive disregard of orders; which (tells) of excessive abundance of liberality and of (equally) excessive persistence in confiscation; which gives delight by abundant (display of) compassion and shocks by superabundance of murders; which is rendered charming by the redundance of pious works and soiled by the superabundance of sins; which is attractive on all sides and yet repulsive, worthy of praise and deserving of blame; which sensible men must magnify and deride, regard with love and yet feel aggrieved at; which is to be blessed and to be condemned worthy of memory and yet to be dimissed from the mind.”[” ^2]