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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 30 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARSHA, or HARSHAVARDHANA (fl. A.D. 606-648)  , an See also:Indian See also: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 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 (1897); Ettinghausen, Harsha Vardhana (See also:Louvain, 1906) .

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