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Map of the Shashankas or "Gauda Kingdom", circa 600 CE.[8]There are several major contemporary sources of information on his life, including copperplates from his vassal Madhavavarma (king of Ganjam), copperplates of his rivals Harsha and Bhaskaravarman, the accounts of Banabhatta, who was a bard in the court of Harsha, and of the Chinese monk Xuanzang, and also coins minted in Shashanka's reign.
Kingdom of Gauda. Coin of Shashanka, king of Gauda, circa 600–635. Samatata type, Assam mint. Map of the Shashankas or "Gauda Kingdom", circa 600 CE. [1] The Gauḍa kingdom (Gauṛa Rājya) (Bengali : গৌড় রাজ্য) was a kingdom during the Classical era in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the Gauda region of ...
Empire ruled by Harsha, 7th century CE India. [6] Harshavardhana (Sanskrit: हर्षवर्धन; 4 June 590 – 647) was emperor of Kannauj from April 606 until his death in 647. He was the son of Prabhakaravardhana, the king of Thanesar who had defeated the Alchon Huns, [7] and the younger brother of Rajyavardhana, son of ...
The empire was founded with the election of Gopāla as the emperor of Gauda in late eighth century CE. [1] The Pala stronghold was located in Bengal and eastern Bihar , which included the major cities of Gauḍa , Vikramapura , Pāṭaliputra , Monghyr , Somapura , Ramavati ( Varendra ), Tāmralipta and Jagaddala .
Kānyakubja Rājya. The Kingdom of Kannauj was a medieval kingdom in northern India from 510, when it was established as a vassal state of the Magadhan Empire, until 1036, when it collapsed after Ghaznavid invasions. [1] During the reign of Harsha, and later under the Pratiharas, the Kingdom of Kannauj stood among the most powerful states in ...
After the demise of the Maukharis, it even became the capital of Emperor Harsha. Hence, Kanyakubja was largely contested by imperial powers. [10]: 20 [6] [11] The first three Maukhari kings are mentioned in the inscriptions as Maharaja, but their successors assumed grander titles showing an increase in power and prestige. Ishanavarman was the ...
Bana does not mention this king, but historians speculate him to be a ruler of the Later Gupta dynasty. [14] Prabhakara's elder son Rajya-Vardhana defeated the Malava ruler, but was killed by the Gauda king. [15] The Harshacharita further states that Prabhakara's younger son Harsha-Vardhana then vowed to destroy the Gauda king and their allies.
Post-Gupta dynasty (550–750 CE) Seal of Harsha found in Nalanda [65] After the decline of the Guptas, the most notable patron of the Nalanda Mahavihara was Harsha (known as Śīlāditya in some Buddhist records). He was a seventh-century emperor with a capital at Kannauj (Kanyakubja).