History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c20.1

c20.1

We have seen above how under the vigorous rule of the Pratihāras and the Gāhaḍavālas the kingdom of Kanauj recalled the glories of Harṣa’s epoch by absorbing within itself distant parts of northern India. We now pass on to deal with its administrative machinery and religious condition during their sway. Unfortunately, no mediæval Kauṭilya or Megasthenes has left to posterity any work throwing light on such topics, but a few facts may be gleaned from the records of both the dynasties; and although here and there they reveal differences of detail in some of the institutions of the Pratihāras and the Gāhaḍavālas, it may reasonably be assumed that the general structure of government and religious traditions continued to be more or less the same.