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# History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s5.31

History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c8.s5.31

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### [c8.s5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c8.s5.31)

To turn to the accounts of these kings, we have unfortunately very little information of value. One of them, Suhotra, is described as having “performed many Rājasūya and Aśvamedha (horse) sacrifices. He brought under his sway the whole earth surrounded by her belt of seas, and full of elephants, kine and horses, and all her wealth in gems and gold.”³ He freed the earth from Mlecchas and forest thieves (vasumatīm mlecchāṭavika varjitām), which expression perhaps signifies that he succeeded in clearing out the aboriginal inhabitants from his kingdom. Another, Jahnu, who was probably two generations below Yauvanāśva Māndhātṛi, being married to his grand-daughter Kāverī,⁴ must have also

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