[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v1.c13.206 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c13.206 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c13.206 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c13.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.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.”\[” ^2\] - [Previous: v1.c13.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c13.205) - [Next: v1.c13.207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c13.207) - [Up: v1.c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c13.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c13.206) · Pramāṇa