History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.141

c11.141

(d) A "much stronger argument" is found in the existence of the Bais Rajputs in Nepal according to the testimony of the *Vaṃśāvalī*. "Since it is an almost universal rule with Indian princes that on the occasion of conquests they grant a portion of land to their clansmen,"¹ probably we have here a direct proof that Nepal was once in the power of a Bais king, who could be nobody else but Harṣa of Kanauj, as we know on the authority of Yuan Chwang that he belonged to the *Feishe* caste, identified by Sir Alexander Cunningham with the Bais Rajputs.²