The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.202

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M. Sylvain Lévi seems to be right in identifying this religious monarch with the Buddhist Śīlāditya I, surnamed Dharmāditya, 'the Sun of Piety', of the Valabhī dynasty, who reigned from about A. D. 595 to 610 or 615;¹ for, although those dates do not agree with all the indications given by Hiuen Tsang, it is certain that Dhruvabhata, the reigning Rāja of Valabhī, was a nephew of Śīlāditya Dharmāditya, while Hiuen Tsang states that he was the nephew of the pious Sīlāditya, the former king of Mo-la-p'o. The apparently necessary inference is that Sīlāditya Dharmāditya must have been king of Mo-la-p'o by conquest in addition to his ancestral realm of Valabhī.¹ Both territories subsequently were conquered by Harsha, and became subject to him as their suzerain.