1921.] Gupta Empire in Sixth and Seventh Cents. A.D. 317 
sway ven still pagel ar by He Parivrajaka Maharaja of 
Dabhala.'' The Parivrajakas Hastin and Samkshdbha seem 
to have ea the ilwacis of the Gane empire in the Central 
Provinces. The Harsha Charita of Bana recognises the posses- 
sion of Malwa by the se apie as late as the time of Prabhakara- 
vardhana (A.D. 600) .? There can be no doubt that the expulsion 
of the Huns from Central India was final. The recovery of 
the Cs ait Provinces was probably effected by Baladitya who 
is grins ted by Hiuen Tsang as having overthrown Mihira- 
kula (the son and successor of TOramana) and left him the 
ruler of a ‘‘ small kingdom in the north”.’ It is not altoge- 
ther improbable that Baladitya was a biruda of ‘‘ the glorious 
Bhanu Gupta, the bravest man on the earth, a | mighty king, 
equal to Partha,’ along with whom Goparaja went to Arikina 
and oe fought a ‘‘ very famous battle” died iar before 
5i0-11.4 
Mihirakula was finally subjugated fe the Janendra ae 
dharman of Mandasor shortly before 533.5 Line 6 of 
the Mandasor oe pillar inscription ° ie eaves the Regain T8 
that in the time of YasOdharman Mihirakula was the king of a 
Himalayan country (‘small kingdom in the north”), i.e 
Kasmir and that neighbourhood, who was compelled ‘‘ to pay 
respect to the two feet’’ of the victorious Janendra probably 
when the latter carried his arms to ‘the — of snow 
the table lands of which are embraced by the Gang. 
Yasodharman claims to have extended his s aay ‘as far as 
the Lauhitya (Brahmaputra) in the east.?| It is not improb- 
able that he defeated and killed Vajra, the son and successor of 
Baladitya, and sabegag Trae the viceregal family of the Dattas 
of Pundravardhana. Hiuen Tsang mentions a king of Central 
India as the successor of Vajra. * The Dattas who governed 
Pundravardhanabhukti from the time of Kumara Gupta - = 
that of Budha Gupta, disappear about this time. But 
dharman’s success must have been short lived, because in ce 
Paramabhattaraka M opardjadhiraja prithivipaty and not any 
official of the Central Indian Janendra was governing the Pund- 
ravardhana bhukti, a province which lay between the Indian 
interior and the Lauhitya. 
1 Fleet, C.I.I., 
2 Cowell and ices Harsa carita, p. 119. 
P- 171. 
5O cit., "14 7,1 . 
6 Op. cit. BP. 146. 147. ‘Ch. Jayaswal, The Historical Position of Kalki, 
p- 
‘ Op. cit., p. 146. 8 Beal, Si-yu-ki, I, p. 170. 
