History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c15.s2.t1.1

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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.