322 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII. 
Gauda king (Sasanka) made a joint attack on the Maukhari 
kingdom. ‘ Grahavarman was by the wicked lord of Malwa 
cut off from the living along with his noble deeds. Rajyasri 
also, the princess, was confined like a brigand’s wife with a 
pair of iron fetters kissing her feet and cast into prison at 
Kanyakubja.” “The villain, deeming the army leaderless, 
ease,’ was ‘‘allured to confidence by false civilities on the part 
of the king of Gauda, and then weaponless, confiding and alone 
despatched in his own quarters.” ! 
o meet the formidable league between the Guptas and 
the Gaudas, Harsha, the successor of Raj yavardhana, concluded 
an alliance with Bhaskaravarman, king of Kamarapa, whose 
father Susthitavarman had fought against the predecessor of 
eva Gupta. This alliance was disastrous for the Gaudas as 
we know from the Nidhanapur plate of Bhaskara.? The 
Gauda people, however, did not tamely acquiesce in the loss of 
their independence. They became a thorn in the side of 
Kanauj and Kamaripa and their hostility towards those two 
powers was inherited by the Pala and Séna successors of 
Sasanka. 
During the long reign of Harsha, Madhava Gupta, the 
successor of Deva Gupta, remained a subordinate ally of 
Kanauj. After Harsha’s death the Gupta empire was revived 
by Adityasena, a prince of remarkable vigour and ability 
who found his opportunity in the commotion which followed 
the usurpation of Harsha’s throne by Arjuna. For this 
king we have a number of inscriptions which prove that he 
ruled over a wide territory extending to the shores of the 
oceans. The Aphsad, Shahpur, and Mandar inscriptions ® 
recognise his undisputed possession of south and east Bihar. 
Another inscription * describes him as the ruler of the whole 
earth up to the shores of the oceans, and the performer of the 
Asvamedha and the other great sacrifices. The titles of 
Paramabhattaraka and Maharajadhiraja applied to him in the 
Mandara inscription indicate that he had raised himself to the 
position of a paramount sovereign. We learn from the 
Shahpur Stone Image inscription that he was ruling in the 
year A.D. 672-73. It is not improbable that he or his son 
and successor Deva Gupta IJI is the Sakalottarapathesvara 
who was defeated by the Chalukya kings Vinayaditya (A.D. 
680 to A.D. 696) § and Vijayaditya. 
3 Fleet, 0.1.1. pp. 202-12. # Op. cit.; p. 213 n. 
5 Kendir plates of Kirtivarman Il, Ep. Ind., ix, p. 202. Bomb. Gaz., 
Vol. I, part II, pp. 189, 368, 371. 
