History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.s4.7

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(d) Ahar stone inscription² and Pāṇḍava-kā-kilā fragmentary stone inscription.³ The two inscriptions of Harṣa come from Banskhera and Madhuban in the Shahjahanpur and Azamgarh districts of the present United Provinces respectively. The inscription of Ādityasena was discovered in Shahpur in the district of Patna. Those of the third category have been found in different localities. One comes from Nirmand in the Sutlej district; one from Khajuraho, not far from the borders of modern United Provinces; the third from Pehoa in the Karnal district; and the last from Panjaur in Thanesvar. Lastly, Ahar is in the Bulandshahr district, U. P., and Pāṇḍava-kā-kilā is in Delhi. Thus excluding the records of Harṣa there are only seven which are said to use the Harṣa era, although none of them refers to the era as such; and it is remarkable that all of them come from places that were within the limits of the Kanauj kingdom at this time. Hence even if it be held that an era could be employed in those territories only, which were once within the jurisdiction of its originator, the evidence of the findspots of these inscriptions is fully in accord with our conclusions.¹