18G2.] Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of KanyaTculja, Sfc. 3 



Whether Pushpabhuti was, or was not, of regal condition does not 

 appear. In religion, he was a S'aiva ; and one Bhairava Acharya was 

 his mystagogue. 



Prabhakaravardhana accorded his preference, in matters of devo- 

 tion, to the sun ; and Madhavagupta served him as spiritual counsel- 

 lor. His exploits, as recorded, include the subjugation of the Hunas, 

 with Sindhu, Gurjara, Gandhara, Lata, and Malava. Due allowance 

 must, of course, here be made for exaggeration. Unquestioning con- 

 fidence in the representations of Indian panegyrists would entail the 

 conclusion, that, in the bygone days of this country, everybody, 

 above all if a patron, was constantly vanquishing everybody else. 



Pajyavardhana, by command of his father, made an expedition to 

 the north, against the Hurahunas.* Harsha followed him. While 

 hunting on the skirts of the Himalayas, a domestic, Karangaka, 

 brought intelligence, that the king was critically ill. Harsha has- 

 tened back, and was just in time to see him expire. Ou the very day 

 of Prabhakaravardhana's decease, Grahavarman was massaci'ed by 

 the king of Malava, who also threw Pajyas'ri into chains. This took 

 place at Kanauj. 



Grahavarman, son of Avantivarman, of the Maukhara family, was 

 husband of Pajyas'ri. As we do not find it stated distinctly, that 

 the king of Malava had aggressed on Kanauj, we should understand, 

 it may be, that Grahavarman owed his death to the son of that 

 sovereign, who, it is said, was staying at the Kanaujan court. Ap- 

 parently, he was there in character of hostage ; and perhaps he 

 received the assistance of troops from his home unexpectedly. 



Pajyavardhana, taking with him Bhandin,t — a subject of high 



* As I have noted elsewhere, the Harahunas — and they may have been the same 

 as the Hurahunas, — are coupled with the S'akas in the MaMbhdrata, Sabhd- 

 parvan, s'l. 1843, 1844. See some remarks on the Hunas in the Journal of the 

 American Oriental Society, Vol. VI., pp. 528, 529. 



For the Halahunas (?), see Professor Weber's Catalogue of the Berlin 

 Sanskrit MSS., p. 241. 



Coiebrooke, speaking of a King Devapala, says : " The tribes of Lasata and 

 Bhola, as well as Hun, are mentioned among his subjects, with the tribes of 

 Gauda, Malava, Karnata, &c. He was, therefore, sovereign of Thibet and 

 Bootan, as well as of Hindusthan, Bengal, and the Dekhin. It was, probably, in 

 Thibet that he encountered the Huns, and reduced them to subjection." Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. I., p. 227. 



The Hunas are, thus, not recognized, by Coiebrooke, as other than a people 

 foreign to India. The notion, that there were not Hindu Hunas, I have previ- 

 ously shown to be, anyhow, not established entirely beyond scope of question. 



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