The University of Nalanda c9.128

c9.128

Hiuen Tsiang's account of the story of the construction of the University does not stop with Harṣa. For, he says, "A long succession of kings continued the work of building....”¹ What exactly Hiuen Tsiang means by these words is, indeed, very difficult to make out. The difficulty lies in this: we have identified “the King of Central India” with Harṣa; and Harṣa and Hiuen Tsiang were contemporaries. Consequently the words, “a long succession of kings,” could not verily refer to the kings after Harṣa. Evidently, therefore, they must be some kings who flourished after Bālāditya and before Harṣa. But this interpretation is not warranted by the sequence in which the account is narrated.