History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c7.s7.4

v1.c7.s7.4

But there is one difficulty. Hiuen Tsang states that the king of Valabhi, son-in-law of Harsha, was a nephew of the Śīlāditya of Malwa. If Śīlāditya of Malwa after a rule of about 50 years, died 60 years before 640 A. D., i.e., about 580 A. D., and was a son of Vikramāditya who must be supposed to have died about 530 A.D., how can his nephew be in 630 A.D. a young man? If we suppose that nephew stands here for a sister's son, even then this relationship cannot be accepted if we bear in mind the disparity of age between a supposed sister of Śīlāditya whose father died say about 530 A. D., and Dhruvabhata of Valabhi who was a young man of twenty-five or thirty in 630 A. D. Of course, if we take Hiuen Tsang's Śīlāditya of Malwa to be a different person from the son of Vikramāditya it is possible to conceive that he had a sister from whom Dhruvabhata was born in the Valabhi family. The conclusion is that the identity of Śīlāditya of Malwa with the Pratāpasīla Śīlāditya, son of Vikramāditya mentioned by Kalhana in the Rājataranginī, is a matter of considerable doubt.