History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.s1.5

c11.s1.5

Similarly, as regards Lampa or *Lan-po* he says: “For several centuries the native dynasty had ceased to exist, great families fought for pre-eminence, and the state had recently become a dependency of Kapiśa;”¹ but he does not, strange to say, name one kingdom or territory as being subject to Kanauj, although he generally calls its king “lord of the Five Indias,” and one who had “conquered all the nations from east to west, and carried his arms to the remote districts.”² Thus, if we take Yuan Chwang’s account too literally we shall have to say with Dr. R. C. Majumdar that “so far at least as these accounts are concerned, Harṣavardhana was merely king of Kanauj.”³