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Yogini Tantra, 1 mention the name of Rada. The allegorical 

 play called the Prabodhachandrodaya, composed by Krishna 

 Misra in the court of Kirttivarman of Bundelkhand (1049 — 

 1100), mentions the name of Rada, 2 and it is also mentioned in 

 the Jyotishatattwa of Raghunandana. It appears from the 

 travels of Hiuen Tsiang and I-tsing that the kingdom of 

 Tamralipta existed in the 7th century A.D., and according to 

 some authority most part of the southern portion of the dis- 

 trict of Hughli was included in the kingdom of Tamralipta. 

 This shows that in the 7th century Tamralipta recovered its 

 independence and even conquered a portion of ancient Sumha. 

 Hiuen Tsiang had gone to Tamralipta from the kingdom of 

 Samatata or East Bengal : he does not mention the name of 

 Sumha or Rada. 3 It appears from his itinerary and other con- 

 temporaneous writings* that about the middle of the 7th 

 century A.D., Harshavarddhana or Siladitya II of Kanyakubja 

 conquered the eastern part of India, and there cannot be the 

 slightest doubt that he subjugated at least the northern 

 portion of Rada by the conquest of Kajughira or Kajeri 6 

 which was a part of Anga and appertained to the ancient 

 Bajjabhumi, one of the two divisions of Lada. He was the 

 last paramount monarch of Northern India before the Maho- 

 medan conquest. But before Rada or any portion of it was 

 conquered by Harshavarddhana, it appears to have formed a 

 part of the kingdom of Karnasuvarna. 6 Hiuen Tsiang men- 

 tions the name of Karnasuvarna for the first time in the 7th 

 century. 7 Its king was the notorious Sasanka who treacher- 

 ously murdered Rajyavarddhana, the elder brother of Harsha- 



varddhana. 

 mentioned as Gaura. 8 



Karnasuvarna 



It appears from the Kdrikd of Devivara Ghataka that 



10 



Rada 



Adisura. 9 This monarch has 



king of Gaura whose daughfe 



Jayapida, king of Kasmir, in the middle of the eighth century 



was man 



1 Yogini Tantra, Purva Khanda, ch. 11, v. 64. 



* Prabodhachandrodaya-nataka, Actsii and iv. 



3 Beal's Buddhist Records of the Western World, vol. ii, p. 200. 



* Harshacharita by Bana Bhatta. 



6 Buddhist Records of the Western World, vol. i, p. 215, note ; 

 vol. ii, pp. 193, 198. 



6 Dr. Waddell's Discovery of the Exact Site of Asoka's Classic 

 Capital of Pataliputra, p. 29. 



7 Buddhist Records of the Western World, vol. i, Bk. v. 



8 Harshacharita, ch. vi. 



1° Biswakosba, voce Kulina. 



