266 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XVIII. 
The glory of the Hina dynasty of Madra was however short 
Magadha defeated and captured Mihirakula.! The credit of 
defeating Mihirakula is also claimed by Yasodharman (532-33 
A.D.) in his Mandasor Pillar inscription.” There is a good 
deal of controversy about the agent who really defeated the 
Hana king. V.A. Smith identifies the Baladitya of Hiuen Tsang 
with Narasimha Gupta Baladitya the grandsor of Kumara 
Gupta I andthe son of Pura Gupta.? But Hiuen Tsang himself 
says that this Baladitya was the grandson of Budha Gupta 
(Fo-to-kio-to) and son of one Tathagata Gupta (Ta-tha-kie-to- 
kio-to) and so the Baladitya whom the pilgrim meant cannot 
be Narasimha Gupta*+ This Baladitya must apparently be 
identified with a Gupta sovereign who flourished after Budha 
and may be identical with the nameless Gupta king of the re- 
cently discovered Damodarpur plate dated in the Gupta year 
214 (A.D. 533-34). Our assumption finds some corroboration 
from the fact that this inscription is dated nearly in the same 
years as that of the Mandasor inscription of Yasodharman 
(533 A.D.) and it is probable that the Huna chief fell to a double 
attack from both his flanks.® 
If we are to believe Hiuen Tsang, Mihirakula fled to Kash- 
mir after his defeat where he repaid the hospitality of the king 
by treacherously murdering him and usurping his throne.’ 
The throne of Madra, during the absence of Mihirakula in the 
wars with Baladitya, was seized by his brother. The Hina power 
probably continued in the Sialkot region for a long time even 
after this serious reverse. In the Harshacharita, Prabhakara- 
vardhana is called by Bana ‘a lion to the Htna deer.’ 
Where could the Hina power possibly lie during this period ¢ 
1t could not be in Malwa where lay the remnants of the Gupta 
power; it had also no place in Rajputana where the rising 
power of the Gurjaras of Bhilmal held its sway. But it was 
probably in the Sialkot region just to the north-west of the 
Pushyabhitis of Sthanegvara that the Haina stronghold was 
situated and it is quite natural that they should come in 
hostile conflict with each other. It was probably this Hina 
state which Hiuen Tsang calls Tseh-kia or Chéh-ka the capital 
of which was an unnamed city about 20 li in circuit, and — 

! Watters’ Yuan Chwang, pp. 286-291. 
2 Fleet, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, pp. 146-47. 
8 V. Smith, Early History of India, p- ‘ 
_ * Raychowdhury, The Gupta Empire in the sixth and seventh centu- 
ries A.D., J.A.S.B. 1920, p- 315. 
° Ibid., p. 317. Prof Raychowdhury identifies Baladitya with “ the 
glorious Bhanu Gupta mentioned in the 
Goparaja dated in the year 191 (511-12 A.D.).” Fleet, Corpus Ins 
——— ws . 93. 
atters’ Yuan Chwangq, pp. 288-289. 
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