History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c7.s3.2.4

v1.c7.s3.2.4

This Brahmin king may either have seated himself on the vacant throne being tolerated by Harsha or he may even have been appointed by Harsha the Emperor as Mātrigupta was appointed to Kashmir by Yaśodharma Vikramāditya of the Mandsaur inscription. Thus the difficulty created by the mention of a Brahmin king in Ujjain by Hiuen Tsang is also removed and reconciled with the story of the Harsha-Charita. Or we may take Deva Gupta’s capital to be some other town like Vidiśā which is also a portion of Malwa. Both Bāṇa and Hiuen Tsang are contemporary and reliable narrators and their statements can only be reconciled in this way.