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¹ *Ep. Ind.*, IV, pp. 208-11. ² *Ibid.*, I, pp. 71-74. ³ *J. R. A. S.*, 1906, pp. 843-50. See also Dr. R. K. Mookerji’s *Harṣa*, pp. 116-17 for this ascription. Dr. Hoernle, however, doubts this attribution, although the views of Sir Richard Burn were evidently known to him (*J. R. A. S.*, 1909, pp. 446-48). He bases his opposition on the following grounds:
(a) Śīlāditya was not the official title of Harṣa, as both the inscriptions and Bāṇa are unaware of it. He thinks that Harṣa was known by this title among Buddhist monks only, from whom Yuan Chwang adopted it.
(b) The *Rājatarangiṇī* (Vol. I, Bk. III, verse 330, Stein’s Trans., p. 98) knows of another Pratāpaśīla, surnamed Śīlāditya. Speaking of Pravarasena it says that “he replaced Pratāpaśīla, also called Śīlāditya, the son of Vikramāditya, who had been dethroned by enemies, in the kingdom of his father.” This Vikramāditya is identified with Yaśodharman of Malwa, who is credited in the Mandasor inscription (*C. I. I.*, III, No. 33, pp. 145, 148) with extensive conquests as far as the Himalayas; and Śīlāditya with his son of the same name (See *J. R. A. S.*, 1903, pp. 545 f.).