Sambodhi 1977 Vol 06

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

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could incur the anger of Harsa and final discomfiture at the hands of the latter as also the bestowal of his own daughter on Harsa in the form of Udayana.
His being an uncle of Grahavarma and a collateral brother of Avanti. varmā strikes more plausible on the ground that the espousal of the daughter of Drdhavarmā by Harsa could make him easily a man equal or little less in age than Prabhākaravardhana who was a contemporary of Avantivarinan. Moreover, the younger brother of a brother-in-law could hardly dare to offer the hand of his daughter to the brother of the wife of his own elder brother. Rather it would be illogical to presume that the dauthter of the younger brother of Grahavarmă could be so mature as to woo cven Harsa immediately after the death of an elder brother who had just married quite recently. Such a thing could be possible at a later date, however, as the case seems likely in so far as Priyadaršikā alias Aranyaka who was his second wife wooed at a time when Vāsavadattā was a mature lady.
Hence the Lord of Kalinga and Košala could be Pulakeğin II who liad Vindhyaketu for one of his vassals while Drdhavarmā vanquished by Pulakesin and later by Harşa could be a foc turned ally of the latter making a peace-treaty with the two and a matrimonial tie with thc latter being an uncle or a younger brother of Grahavarmā Maukhari.
Abdreviations
| BE. : 'Bombay edition." 2 CE.: "Calcutta edition.' 3 HC. : 'Harșa Carita.' 4 HGAI : 'Historical Geographly of Ancient India.' 5 HLI. : 'Historical and Literary Inscriptions.' 6 IHQ. : 'Indian Historical Quarterly.'