The Making of Harshavardhan's Empire

Harshavardhana holds an important place among the rulers of Ancient India. In this video, we will talk about the eastern campaigns of Harshavardhana and the situation in the North of the Indian subcontinent.
Reference:-
1. History of Ancient Bengal by R.C Majumdar
2. Harsha : A Political Study by D. Devahuti
3. The World of the Skandapurāṇa by Hans T. Bakker
3. Harṣa and his Times by Baijanth Sharma
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WOW......just had a hunch!!!!! Just realized that there is a word in Marathi, ‘Goudbangal’ Looks like someone just joined Gauda and Bangal to create this word. Although it means totally different. It could be used to mean either suspense, mystery or fraud or corruption. Like you could replace the dialogue, “Kuch to gadbad hai Daya’ with “isme kuch to Goudbangal hai Daya”. Maybe some etymologist could do some research on this.

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6:41 Shailodbhava were already Shasankas feudatories. But its doubtful if they remained Harsha's feudatories. From Inscriptions of Orissa by Snigdha Tripathy - Page 59 - The Vigraha rulers(ruling South Toshali or as they called it - "Kalinga rashtra") and Bhanudatta(who ruled over Balasore and Midnapore) accepted the suzerainty of Sambhuyasa of Mudgalas dynasty (they originally ruled North Toshali and captured South Toshali from the Vigrahas, Mahanadi river serving as the border between North and South Toshali). They have a history of 50 years from year 250 of Gupta Era to year 300. Bhanudatta's successor Somadatta has copper plate grant from his 19th regnal year claimed subbordination of Shasanka with the title of "Samanta Maharaja") as the ruler of Dandabhukti (south western Midnapore) and Utkala(or North/Uttar Toshali aka Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Balasore and Cuttack). By year 300 of Gupta era, all these regions came under Madhavraja of Shailodbhava Dynasty who served as the feudatory of Shasanka over the entire region as the ruler of "Kongoda mandala". They had the title "Maharaja Mahasamanta". From the epigraphic records of Vigrahas and Mudgalas, it is understood that Shasanka invaded Kongoda mandala in year 283 of Gupta era (603-4 CE) From Page 64 In 620 CE, Madhavraja II assumed the title of "Sakala-Kalingadhipati" or "ruler of the whole of Kalinga"(though large parts of the historical Kalinga region was then under early Eastern Ganga rulers with their capital at "Kalinganagara"). It is usually believed based on Xuanzang's account that Harsha also invaded Kongoda. But none of the their records found in Khordha after claiming independence from Shasanka refer to any overlordship. It can be presumed that Harsha's conquest of Kongoda if any was short lived and the Shailodbhava rulers do not seem to have become his feudatories unlike Shasanka.

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Historians also argue that Harsha has never been part of invasion of Gauda rather it was Kamrupa king Kumar Bhashkar Varman who captured Karnasuvarna made it his second capital. Dubi and Nidhanpur copper plate inscriptions of Bhashkar Varman clearly points that Pundravardhan (N.Bengal) , Karnasuvarna even parts of modern day Bangladesh like Sylhet was under Bhashkar 's releam. Even Huien Tsang mentioned Bhashkat Varman having control over Eastern Sea trade probably from port city of Tamralipti

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We don't know whether the Kingdom of Sindh extentder that far...it's a very late source which exxagerated it very likely

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Is there any proof behind claim that Harshavardhan was a bais rajput?

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takkas were probably upto jhelum in northern punjab since xuanzang says takshashila was under kashimiri rule .

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Sir please upload this video on Hind ❤

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From which dynasty Devagupta of malwa belongs?

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We don't have any information regarding that

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Please do settle the debate regarding religion of Harshavardhan

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He himself calls him paramahesvara (supreme devotee of shiva) In his inscriptions

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Born Shaivite died as Buddhist

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@@askyourmama5862 nor harshacharita mentions him to be a Buddhist nor his own inscriptions 🤡

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6:52 jadupur district? Huh????? Its in Murshidabad. There no district called jadupur.

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You are currently doing PHD on which part of Indian History Medieval ????

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Ancient

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​@@user-cl9bd1tz3bno ancient period..... Vedic falls in ancient.

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Ancient & Early Medieval

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Prakrit,pali Sanskrit.

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Harshvardhan bais kshtriya rajput

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He was not Rajput

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@@stboys1932 he was a vaishya although exactly which was his cast is not prooved fully

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