[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c30.54 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.54 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.54 - **Language:** English ### [c30.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.54) One campaign had sated Asoka’s thirst for blood; thirty-seven years of warfare, continuous for six years, and intermittent for the rest of the time, were needed by Harsha before he could be content to sheathe the sword. His last campaign was fought against the people of Ganjām (Kongōda) in A.D. 643, and then at last this king of many wars doffed his armour, and devoted himself for his few remaining years to the arts of peace and the practice of piety, as understood by an Indian despot. He obviously set himself to imitate Asoka, so that the narrative of the doings in the latter years of Harsha’s reign reads like a copy of the history of the great Maurya. - [Previous: c30.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.53) - [Next: c30.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.55) - [Up: c30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.54) · Pramāṇa