The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.4.2

v1.c16.4.2

Attacked on both flanks by Harṣa and Bhāskaravarman, he appears to have retreated into the hill-tracts of Orissa. The former annexed Magadha, while the latter to judge from the position of his victorious camp at Karṇasuvarṇa, overran North and West Bengal.⁶ During the reign of Harṣa, the rest of Bengal and Bihar appears to have been divided into a number of independent and semi-independent states. These were (1) *I-lan-na-po-fa-to* (Hiraṇyaparvata?, country round the hill of Monghyr), (2) *Chan-p'o* (Campā, Bhagalpur District), (3) *Ka-chu-wên* (?) *k'i-lo* (Kajaṅgala, area round Rajmahal), (4) *Pun-na-fa-tan-na* (Puṇḍra-vardhana, North Bengal to the west of the Karatoya), (5) *San-mo-ta-t‘a* (Samataṭa, Bengal delta between the Hugli and Hill Tippera), (6) *Tan-mo-lih-ti* (Tāmralipti, portions of Midnapore and the 24-Parganas) and (7) *Kie* (*ka*)*-lo-na-su-fa-la-na* (Karṇasuvarṇa, probably portions of Nadia, Burdwan, Birbhum and Murshidabad districts).¹ A critical study of Yuan Chwang's account seems to indicate that though Harṣa sometimes passed through these tracts in the course of his invasions, they did not form a part of his empire.² After the death of Harṣa, the troubled state of the Ganges valley appears to have helped the extension of Tibetan power in the south. The Chinese and Tibetan documents however never tell us whether Tibet actually held Bengal and Bihar;