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of Karnasuvarna. But it was not so easy for the Calukya king 

 to govern these countries from so long a distance as Badami, 

 his capital, and hence it is not probable that he retained pos- 

 session of Aiiga for a long period after his conquest. 



Dandin in the 6th century speaks of a king of Anga 

 named Siiiihavarmma. whose capital Cam pa was besieged by 

 Canciavarrnma, the regent of Darpasara, king of Malwa. 1 Sim- 

 havarmma is said to have been a contemporary of Naravahana- 

 datta, king of Vatsya. But it does not seem that Siniha- 

 varmma had any real existence, though Naravahana-datta 

 was a real personage, being the son of Udayana or Udena of 

 the Buddhists, a contemporary of Buddha * and Canda-pradyota, 

 king of Malwa,— the Candavarmma of the Da&akumara-cha- 

 rita. Anga had then already been conquered by Bimbisara 

 and had become a part of the Magadha kingdom. 



In the 7th century the splitting up of the vast Gupta em- 

 pire into several petty principalities, enabled Harsavarddhana 

 or S'iladitya II of Kanouj to wrest the kingdom of Magadha 

 along with that of Anga from the hands of the weak princes 

 who governed them. He extended his conquests and ulti- 

 mately becam • the paramount sovereign of Northern India. 



Hiuen TViang who visited Anga in the second quarter of 

 the 7th century a.d., describes the country as being 4000 li or 

 800 miles in circuit with its capital on the south bank of the 

 Ganges. There were many Sahgharamas or monasteries mostly 

 in ruins, with 200 priests who followed the Hina-ySna sys- 

 tem of Buddhism. There were also twenty Deva temples. He 

 does not mention the name of its king, nor does he mention 

 it as a separate kingdom. He visited India during the reign 



of Harsavarddhana, the country being then governed by 

 that monarch. 



The dismemberment of the empire of Harsavarddhana 

 after his death made Adityasena, a scion of the royal house 

 of Guptas, independent sovereign of Magadha in the middle 



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of the 7th century, and the excavation of the Papaharini 

 tank at the foot of the Mandara hill in the district of Bhagal- 

 pur about thirty miles to the south of Campanagar, by his wife 

 Konadevl or Kondadevi as mentioned in an inscription/ shows 

 that Anga still formed a part of the Mauadha kingdom. There 

 is no record to show when Anga passed out of the dominion 

 of the Karna kings ; most probably when Sas mka was 

 defeated and Gauda was conquered by Harsavarddhana. It 

 appears that from the latter end of the 5th" century to the 

 middle of the 8th century two dynasties were reigning side 



by side in Magadha, East Magadha being under the ''later 

 Guptas," as they were called, and West Magadha under the 



1 Dasakum., Mjidhya-bhaga, eh. i. 



* Katha-sarit-sagara. 8 Corp. Ins. Ind., iii, p. 211. 



