History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.255

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c11.255

Bāṇa, on the other hand, would have us believe that Harṣa pounded a king of Sindh, and appropriated the Rājalakṣmī or fortune of that monarch.⁷ Probably what happened was that sometime during his reign Harṣa came into collision with the king of Sindh, and it resulted in the defeat of the latter. But the victory was no more than a brilliant conclusion of hostilities, as in the case of Pulakeśi II, for we know definitely on the authority of Yuan Chwang that Sindh continued to be ruled by a king of the Śūdra caste, who was a sincere believer in Buddhism.¹

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