9 
Vestiges of Three Toyal Lines of Kanyakubja, Sfo . [No. 1, 
known to have been shortly before the middle of the seventh century, 
the king of Kanauj was Harshavardhana, Harshamalla, or simply 
Harsha.* His elder brother was IHijyavardhana ;t and he had a 
sister, Mahadevl, or Rajyas'n. Their parents were Pratapas'ila, or 
Prabhakaravardhana,^ and Yas'ovati. Prabhakaravardhana’s ancestor, 
of some unnamed degree, was Pushpabhuti, a native of S'rikantha. 
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Its sixty-sixth stanza occurs, anonymously, in the Saraswati-Tcanthdbharana. It 
is found in the S' arngadhara-paddhati as well, and is there ascribed to liana. 
are H ie initial words. 
* He was reigning when Hiouen-Thsang was in India, namely, between 
A. D. 629 and 645. Voyages des Pelerins Bouddhistes , Yol. II., p. 247. Bana 
was a contemporary 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 aditya ; 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 Gralmvarman, soon to be mentioned ? Voyages , 
&c., Yol. I., pp. Ill, 112, 206, and 370; Yol. II., p. 251 ; and Yol. III., p. i63. 
For Dhruvasena, son of S'iladitya, see the Journal of the Bombay Branch of 
the Royal Asiatic Society , Yol. 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 Yallabhinagari, Lakshmivallablia, the Jaina, tells a 
story, in his Kalpa-drumaJcalilcd. 
The partiality for Bauddhas, asserted, by Hiouen-Thsang, of Harsha, must, 
very probably, be received with liberal discount. 
f Not Rajavardliana,—an all but impossible name,—as Hiouen-Thsang has 
it; but venially, considering the slight difference, to the ear, between the syllables 
raja and rajya. This I pointed out some years ago. But M. Julien still adheres to 
his authority. He says: “ Bo-chefa-t' anna (Radjavarddhana) ; en Chinois,** 
Wang-tseng l’augmentation, l’agrandissement du roi —Sur la suppression de d 
devant dh, voyez § NY. P. 76 of Methode pour dechiffrer et transcrire les Noms 
Sanscrits qui se rencontrent dans les Livres 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 varddhana. 
J 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 Jay aditya after him, to the throne of Ivanauj. See the 
Indische Alterthumskunde , Yol. III., pp. 669-715, and 1162 ; and Voyages , &c., 
Yol. 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. 
