See also:HARSHA, or HARSHAVARDHANA (fl. A.D. 606-648)
, an See also:Indian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king who ruled See also:northern See also:India as See also:paramount monarch for over See also:forty years
.
The events of his reign are related by Hsi.ian Tsang, the See also:Chinese See also:pilgrim, and by Bana, a See also:Brahman author
.
He was the son of a See also:raja of See also:Thanesar, who gained prominence by successful See also:wars against the See also:Huns, and came to the See also:throne in A.D
.
6o6, though he was only crowned in 612
.
He devoted himself to a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of conquering the whole of India, and carried on wars for See also:thirty years with success, until (A.D
.
620) he came in contact with Pulakesin II., the greatest of the See also:Chalukya See also:dynasty, who made himself See also:lord of the See also:south, as See also:Harsha was lord of the See also:north
.
The See also:Nerbudda See also:river formed the boundary between the two empires
.
In the latter years of his reign Harsha's sway over the whole See also:basin of the See also:Ganges from the Himalayas to the Nerbudda was undisputed
.
After thirty-seven years of See also:war he set himself to emulate See also:Asoka and became a See also:patron of See also:art and literature
.
He was the last native monarch who held paramount See also:power in the north See also:prior to the See also:Mahommedan See also:conquest; and was succeeded by an era of See also:petty states
.
See Bana, Sri-harsha-charita, trans
.
See also:Cowell and See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas (1897); Ettinghausen, Harsha Vardhana (See also:Louvain, 1906)
.
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