The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s3.6

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This king was named Bhāskaravarman, and was also known as Kumāra. He belonged to a very ancient dynasty, which claimed to have existed for a thousand generations. Hiuen Tsang describes him as being a Brahman by caste, but the form of his name indicates that he considered himself to be a Kshatriya or Rājpūt, and it would seem that the pilgrim really meant that Bhāskaravarman was a Brahmanical Hindu in religion. He may have been a ‘Brahmakshatrī’, as the Sena kings were in later times. Buddhism was scarcely known in his country, which did not contain a single monastery.¹