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² Kielhorn (*Ind. Ant.*, xxvi, 32). Twenty inscriptions dated in the Harsha era are known (*Ep. Ind.*, vol. v, App. Nos. 528–47). When Hiuon Tsang was with Harsha, in A. D. 643, the king's reign was reckoned as having lasted for more than thirty years (*Records*, i, 213; 'lord of India for thirty years and more', *Life of Hiuon Tsang*, p. 183). The quinquennial assembly in the spring of A. D. 643 was the sixth held in the reign (Beal, *Life of Hiuon Tsang*, p. 184). The period of five and a half years (Julien), or six years (Watters), spent in the preliminary subjugation of the north, is not included in this computation.