Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.162

c6.162

Coming to the seventh century we have the evidence of *Harṣacarita* wherein we find that Rājyavardhana of Thaneswar which Mr. Jackson considers to be identical with the Gauḍa country, was killed by the Gauḍa-king (*Gauḍādhipa*)³ Saśāṅka, who, Yuan Chwang tells us, was the ruler of Karṇasuvarṇa in Bengal.⁴ There can therefore be no room for doubting that in the seventh century A. C. Gauḍa was a part of Bengal.