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History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c15.s2.t1: Sources

History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c15.s2.t1

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After Harṣa's death the earliest monarch, whose name has been recorded in literature and also perhaps in an inscription,³ is Yaśovarman. He was apparently a king of some note, and his exploits form the subject of a contemporary Prakrit document called the Gauḍavaho, which, though planned on an enormous scale (viyaḍa = vikaṭa), on the whole, as remarked by Dr. Keith, contains “as little history as possible.”¹ Some welcome light on his career is also thrown by Kalhaṇa’s Rājatarangiṇī and the Jain works like the Prabhāvakacarita, the Prabandha-Koṣa, and the Bappabhaṭṭasūricarita, and we shall appraise the value of their testimony later on.

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³ Cf. the Nalanda stone inscription of Yaśovarmadeva. Dr. Hīrānanda Śāstrī, the editor of the inscription, however, identifies him with Yaśodharman of the Mandasor inscriptions (Ep. Ind., Vol. XX (January, 1929), pp. 39-40). See Infra for this controversy.

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¹ A History of Sanskrit Literature (1928), p. 150.

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