18G2.] Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of KanyaJcubja, Sfc. 
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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, Gandliara, 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. 
Kajyavardhana, 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. On the very day 
of Prabhakaravardhana’s decease, Grahavarman was massacred by 
the king of Malava, who also threw Eajyas'ri into chains. This took 
place at Kanauj. 
Grahavarman, son of Avantivarman, of the Maukhara family, was 
husband of Eajyas'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. 
Kajyavardhana, taking with him Bhandin,f—a subject of high 
* As I have noted elsewhere, the Harabunas—and they may have been the same 
as the Hurahunas,—are coupled with the S'akas in the Mahabhdrata, Sabha- 
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 Berliu 
Sanskrit MSS., p. 241. 
Colebrooke, speaking of a King Devapala, says : “ The tribes of Lasata and 
Bhota, as well as Hun, are mentioned among his subjects, w T ith 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 Colebrooke, 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. 
f The minister “ P’o-ni”—M. Julien’s Band, Bhanf, and Bliani (?)—into 
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