History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.s1.19

c11.s1.19

Thus the whole evidence harmonises remarkably well, and it is high time to give up all exaggerated notions of Harṣa’s sovereignty or political jurisdiction extending up to Kashmir and Sindh, Gujrat and even the far South, Kāmarūpa (Assam) and Nepal. Such a view is flagrantly opposed to the unimpeachable contemporary testimony of Yuan Chwang. Besides, there is nothing in the inscriptions or literature to support it. These territories themselves were of sufficiently imposing dimensions, being much larger than any other individual state in Northern India; and this was the reason why the power and majesty of Harṣa made such a deep impression upon the illustrious Master of the Law.³