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which was strongly fortified, then extended along the east bank of the Ganges for about four miles and was adorned with lovely gardens and clear tanks. The inhabitants are rich and happy and every caste rolls in wealth. Flowers and fruits abound everywhere, cultivation and harvest take place at regular time. The climate is temperate. The manners of the people are sincere and honest. The inhabitants have some noble and graceful traits of character. They apply themselves ardently to a cultivation of literature. They speak with clearness and discuss with subtlety. Later, it became also the capital of our King Yas varman and afterwards of the Gurjara-Pratihāra Kings, Mihira Bhoja and Mahendrapāla. Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Bhavabhūti, Vākpatirāja, Rajasekhara and Kṣemisvara were some of the great poets who lived in this city, enjoying the patronage of their contemporary monarchs.
Harsa's death (in 647 A.D) threw the whole country into chaos and 'produced a medley of petty states with ever-varying boundaries and engaged in unceasing internecine war'. As a result, there came on the scene a King named Yasovarman, a Kṣatriya of the lunar race (1064-65). He was a descendant of the Maukhari king Avantivarma, who reigned at Kanauj and whose son, Grahavarmā, married to the princess Rajyaśrī, was earlier murdered by a Mälava king of Ujjain. The murder was avenged by Rajyavardhana, the brother of the princess and of Sri-Harṣa, the patron of Banabhatta. The kingdom of Kanauj came to be later restored to some member of the family of his sister's late husband, Grahavarmā, from whom descended the King Yasovarman.
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After1 ascertaining the (relative) strength or weakness of powers, place, time, seasons for marching, 14. R. P. Kangle-Kauṭiliya Arthaśāstra' Part II, sec 135.
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