Sambodhi 1977 Vol 06

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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to the treaty Narmada, most probably, was taken as the demarcation boundary of these rulers. Possibly it seems to me that Pulakesin II transferred the soverignty of Vanga, Anga and Magadha to Harsa. These parts were claimed to have been under the suzerainty of his (i.e. Pulakesin II's) predecessors. We find this direct testimony in the Mahakūta Pillar Insc. of Mangalesa that his predecessor (Kirti Varma I) defeated the rulers of Vanga, Anga and Magadha etc. Harṣa was also the supreme sovereign of Magadha. 39
From these remarks of Nisar Ahmed we can easily reconcile with the statements of Harşa in Priyadarsika and Ratnavali that Pulakesin II suffered at the hands of Harsa and had to enter into a peace treaty with him on the skirts of Vindhyas. He had to hand over the regions of Vanga, Anga and Magadha to Harṣa.
Drdḥavarma, therefore, being a subsidiary vassal might have been defeated by Pulakesin II the lord of the Kalingas 40 and later on restored to his kingdom of Anga under Harṣa after the treaty of Narmada. Vindhyaketu, too, might have been a subsidiary vassal in the surtoundings of Pulakesin II subjugated by the latter and, therefore, an ally of the latter and an enemy of Harsa as also an ally of Drdhavarma. Harṣa might have faced the formidable confederation of Pulakesin and Vindhyaketu and defeated them enmass or else how could a treaty be possible between Harşa and Pulakesin II. Drḍhavarma might have been the father-in-law of Harsa. Vindhyaketu might have been killed in the turmoil.
Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta has elaborated a paper on the later day of the Maukharis in IHQ(June and Sept. 1962) 41 and postulated the existence of Suva-Suvra a younger brother of Grahavarma son of Avantivarma, on the throne of Kanauj soon after the death of Grahavarma, at the hands of Devagupta of Malava, since Baṇa has baptised Grahavarama as the eldest son of Avantivarma. 42-in the fourth Ucchväsa of HC. This can imply the existence of a younger brother to him accordingly. Aryamañjugrimulakalpa has corroborated the geneological table given in the Asirgarh seal of Sarva Varman and other grants and scals of the Maukharis. 48
This point can lead us to a surmise that Drdhavarmā might have been a younger brother of Grahavarma and an elder brother of Suva-Suvra the 40 Cf 21 above.
39 IHQ XXXXII Dec 1961, No. 1, pp, 250-252. 41 Volume XXXV III Pts II and III pp. 242-246
42 dharanidharanam ca mardhni sthito mahesvaraḥ padanyasa iva sakala-bhuvana-namaskyto maukharo vamsaḥ, tatrapi tilakabhutasya avantivarmanah sūnuḥ agrajo Grahavarmā name grahapatiriva gam gataḥ pituḥ anyūno gunaiḥ enam prarthayat. HC V I pp. 422-423 CE.
43 IHQ,XXXV III p.p. 245-246,