2 Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kanyalcubja, Sfc. [No. 1, 



known to have been shortly before the middle of the seventh century, 

 the king of Kanauj was Harshavardhana, Harsh amalla, or simply 

 Harsha.* His elder brother was Eajyavardhana ;f and he had a 

 sister, Mah&devi, or Eajyas'ri. Their parents were Pratapas'ila, or 

 Prabhakaravardhana,J and Yas'ovati. Prabhakaravardhana's ancestor, 

 of some unnamed degree, was Pushpabhuti, a native of S'rikantha. 



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TTT^TEIT ^T*TqT«^ HWrl ^fctf ^T^RT ^P ^^H II 



Its sixty-sixth stanza occurs, anonymously, in the Sarasivati-7ca?ithdbharana. It 

 is found in the S'drngadhara-paddhati as well, and is there ascribed to Bana. 

 f^lTlW ^IfS*? are the initial words. 



* He was reigning when Hiouen-Thsang was in India, namely, between 

 A. D. 629 and 645. Voyages des Pelerins Bouddhistes, Vol. II., p. 247. Bana 

 was a contemporai'y of Harsha, whom he first saw, he tells us, at S'rikantha. 



Hiouen-Thsang declares, that Harsha was called S'iladitya also. But of this 

 assertion there is not an inkling in what I have seen of the Harsha- charita. Its 

 truth is, indeed, open to grave question ; for the titles of none, I suspect, but 

 Kshatriyas end in dditya ; and the Chinese pilgrim informs us, that Harsha was 

 a Vais'ya. For the rest, he has, pretty evidently, confounded him with another 

 S'iladitya, whom he terms a Kshatriya. Was Dhruvapatu, — called son-in-law of 

 S'iladitya, — another name of Grahavarman, soon to be mentioned ? Voyages, 

 &c, Vol. I., pp. Ill, 112, 206, and 370 ; Vol. II., p. 251 ; and Vol, III., p. 163. 



For Dhruvasena, son of S'iladitya, see the Journal of the Bombay Branch of 

 the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. III., Part II., p. 216. 



Of this Dhruvasena, or of some relative of his, bearing the same name, and 

 under the title of Raja of Vallabliinagari, Lakshmivallabha, the Jaina, tells a 

 story, in his Kalpa-druma-lcalikd. 



The partiality for Bauddhas, asserted, by Hiouen-Thsang, of Harsha, must, 

 very probably, be received with liberal discount. 



f Not Bajavardhana, — an all but impossible name, — as Hiouen-Thsang has 

 it ; but venially, considering the slight difference, to the ear, between the syllables 

 raja and rdjya. This I pointed out some years ago. But M. Julien still adheres to 

 his authority. He says: " Lochefa-fan-na (Radjavarddhana) ; en Chinois,** 

 Wang-tseng l'augmentation, l'agrandissement du roi — Sur la suppression de d 

 devant dh, voyez § XV. P. 76 of Methode pour dechiffrer et transcrire les Noms 

 Sanserifs qui se rencontrent dans les IAvres Chinois, &c. Paris: 1861. In pass- 

 ing, there is no necessity for supposing, in this case, that d is suppressed before 

 dh ; for vardhana is just as correct Sanskrit as varddhnna. 



X I have no time to dwell on the speculations of Professor Lassen touching 

 these persons. Misled by Hiouen-Thsang's indeterminate style of expression, 

 he makes two kings, Harshavardhana and S'iladitya, out of one. Again, cha- 

 racteristically enough, he gratuitously provides, in S'iladitya, a father for one 

 Dharmaditya, — a foundling, for anything ascertained to the contrary, — whom 

 he elevates, and his son Jayaditya after him, to the throne of Kanauj. See the 

 Indische Alterthumskunde, Vol. HI., pp. 669-715, and 1162 ; and Voyages, &c, 

 Vol. I., pp. Ill, 112. 



I write without the privilege of access to what M. Reinand has published 

 on India as represented by the Arabian travellers. 



