4 
Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kanyalcubj a, Sfc. [No. I, 
rank, by whom his education had been superintended,—and an army 
of ten thousand horse, marched to attack the king of Malava. Him 
he slew ; but his own fate was defeat and death at the hands of 
Gupta,* king of Gauda, of which the news was brought back by 
Kuntala, a chief officer of cavalry. Sinhanada and Skandagupta, 
the generalissimos, urge Harsha to make reprisals ; and they lose no 
time in embarking on the enterprize. 
The account of Harsha’s progress towards the south-east I omit.f 
Before he could reach Gauda, Bhandin. arrived, with spoils of the 
Malavas. Enquiries were at once made for Rajyas'ri. She had 
escaped from Kanauj, and had fled towards the Yindhya mountains. 
Thither Harsha directs his steps. He is visited by Bhukampa, a 
military retainer to some local dignitary, Yyaghraketu, son of S'arabha. 
ketu. These names, by the bye, seem to be coinages suggested by 
the fancied fitness of circumstances, Bhukampa knows nothing of 
Bajyas n’s present quarters, and recommends, that Harsha should 
seek for information at a neighbouring hamlet. She is discovered, 
when on the very point of burning herself. 
At this juncture my least imperfect manuscript of the Harsha- 
charita unfortunately breaks off. With one more reference, I shall 
take leave of it. Among the Yindhyas, Harsha meets with a holy 
mendicant, Divakaramitra by name, a Bauddha pervert from Hindu¬ 
ism. In his vicinity resided various religionists, whose denominations 
I detail; it being interesting to know what Indian sects had exist¬ 
ence in the seventh century. There were A'rhatamaskarins, S'weta- 
vratas, Pandurabhikshus, Bhagavatas, Yarnins, Laukayatikas, Jainas, 
Kapilas, Kanadas, Aupanishadas, Ps'warakaranins, Dharmas'astrins, 
Pauranikas, Saptatantavas, S'abdas, and Pancharatras. 
whose mouth a long speech is put, in the Chinese, is, in all probability, my Bhan¬ 
din, or Bhandi—to write the word in the nominative : only Bana provides Bhandin 
with an alibi at the time Hiouen-Thsang sets “ P’o-ni” to haranguing at Kanauj. 
Voyages , &c , Yol. I., p. 112 ; Yol. II., p. 248 ; and Yol. III., pp. 435, 492. 
* According to Hiouen-Thsang, Kijyavardhana fell a victim to the machina¬ 
tions of S'as'anka, who reigned at Karnasuvarna. May not that potentate’s full 
name have been S'as'ankagupta ? 
The ruins of Karnasuvarna have been discovered, by Captain F. P. Layard, 
about twelve miles to the south of Murshidabad. See this Journal, for 1853, 
pp. 281, 282. 
I have taken the last pai’agraph from my preface to the Vasavadatta , p. 52 
The sentence standing just before it, in that page, is to be expunged. 
f At Pragjyotisliapura he entered into an alliance with Bliaskaravarman, the 
king of Kamarupa whom Hiouen-Thsang visited. Voyages , &c., Yol. I., pp. 
390^ 391; and Yol. Ill , pp. 76, 77. 
