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Dr. R. S. Tripathi20, is credited with the conquest of Kosala and Kalinga.21 Dr. Tripathi takes Orissa to be within the pale of Harsa's sovereignty. For the life tells us that after subjugation of Kongodha Śılāditya camped in Orissa for a time, and made a magnificent gift of the revenue of eighty, large towns of Orissa to Jayasena, "the admiration of the period", who in his characterstic other worldliness declined the king's repeated offers.22 The Košala vanquished by the Caulakya Pulakesin Il was Mahākošala and not the Uttarakošala having Ayodhyā for its capital23 Udayana's (i.g. Harsa's) conquest of Kosala as announced by Vijayavarmā, the nephew of Rumaņvān alias Simhanāda may pertain to that of the Uttarkošala because in case we deem Pulakasin II holding charge of Mahākošala vanquished by Harşa, we shall be belying the veracity of a historical fact that Harșa was defeated by Pulakeğin II. 24
Dr. R. K. Mookarji comes to our rescuc here. He writes in his 'Harşa'2 5
"The incident introduced in the Ratnāvali of the princess driven to seek shelter in the Vindhyan forest under the chief Vindhyaketu seems to have been directly suggested by the actual fact of a similar connection which Harsa's own sister Rajyasri had with the same forest and its Chiefs Sarabhaketu and Vyāghraketu, father and son''26. Vindhyaketu had been marched against by Vijayasena by whom he was defeated and slain. 27
Dşəhavarmā, the king of the Angas defeated by the accursed lord of the Kalingas poses a serious problem. Vindhyaketu was an ally of Dşdhavarmā but an enemy of Udayana (i.e, Harsa) 2 8. Drdhavarmā was defeated by the accursed king of the Kalingas. 29 Priyadarsika had been betrothed to Udayana 30 (i.c. Harşa) who got Vindhyakctu killed. The lord of the Kalingas had also been vanquished by Harsa through his army in chief and Dşdhavarmā had been reinstated to his own throne in Angas. 20 History of Kannauj p. 106 21 "abhavannupajatabhitilingah yadanikena sakośalah kalingah.” Aihole Insc. Vecse 26
p. 118, Dr B. Upadhyāya-A study in Ancient Indian Inscriptions, 22 History of Kannauj, p. 106 23 HA.I., Dr. R.S. Tripathi p. 397 24 Ibid., 25 Notes 'A' to Ch 1V pp. 152–159 26 Harsa, p. 153, Dr. R. K. Mookarji. CP. HC. ucch. VIII, pp. 835-841. "Ekada ca
bhūpaterbhramata eva atavikasāmanta-sarabhaketoh sūnuh Vyaghraketurnama
kuto'pi............ Sabarayuvānami daya ajagama." 27 The story of king Udayana, Dr. Niti Adaval p. 150, "arya Vindhyaketorduhita, tam
vyāpadya vijayasenānītă Priyadarsika" IV p. 89 ed. by R. V. Krishnamachariar, 28 Ibid. ...p. 5
29 Ibid p. 6 30 “ The story of king Udayana, p. 153."