The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.206

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Harsha (Sīlāditya), of Kanauj, is described by his friend Hiuen Tsang as being of the Vaisya caste, although he seems to have taken rank as a Kshatriya. The erroneous identification of Mo-la-p'o with the kingdom of Ujjain has given rise to much confusion in the treatment of the history of Harsha's period, and the main purpose of the observations made in the first edition of this work was the rectification of that embarrassing error. Those observations, which were themselves erroneous in certain respects, have now been corrected in the light of subsequent criticism and discussion.²