History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.s1.16

c11.s1.16

That this was the view of Yuan Chwang is further evident from the fact that all the places mentioned in connection with Harṣa’s tours of inspection lie eastward;¹ and moreover he calls Harṣa “lord of the five Indias,” which has been explained as comprising Svarāṣṭra or the Panjab (i.e., eastern parts of the Panjab in this case), Kānyakubja, Mithila or Bihar, Gauḍa or Bengal, and Utkala or Orissa.²