The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.31

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With this mobile and formidable force Harsha overran Northern India; and, in the picturesque language of his contemporary the Chinese pilgrim, ‘he went from east to west subduing all who were not obedient; the elephants were not unharnessed, nor the soldiers unhelmeted.’ By the end of five and a half years the conquest of the north-western regions, and probably also of a large portion of Bengal, was completed; and his military resources were so increased that he was able to put in the field 60,000 war elephants and 100,000 cavalry. He then reigned happily for thirty-five years longer, and during that period devoted most of his immense energy to the government of his extensive dominions.¹ His last recorded campaign, an attack on the sturdy inhabitants of Ganjām, on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, took place in A. D. 643.