xuanzang came to india from china during the reign of harshavardhana.
xuanzang came to india from china during the reign of harshavardhana.
who came to india from china during the reign of harshavardhana?
xuanzang
in about 643, xuanzang (xuanzang/hiuen tsang) visited bhaskaravarman's court and recorded details of his kingdom. xuanzang mentioned the western border of the kamarupa kingdom was the karatoya river and eastern boundary as dikkaravasini (sadiya). at the end of this visit, bhaskaravarman accompanied xuanzang to kanauj, and participated in a religious assembly and a festival at prayaga (allahabad) with harshavardhana, spending more than a year away from his own kingdom. assembly was participated by eighteen vassal kings, while bhaskaravarman impersonated as "brahma", harsha kept himself the subordinate position of "indra". it seems bhaskaravarman maintained relations with china. he recounted to xuanzang a chinese song about the jin dynasty which became very popular in his kingdom. in 648 a.d after the death of harshavardhana, wang-hiuen-ts'oe was sent on a mission to india with tsiang cheu-jenn as his second in command was helped by bhaskaravarman, according to a chinese account. bhaskaravarman, also called kumar, or shri kumar, was a bachelor king and died without an heir.
lower assam
supratisthitavarman was succeeded by his brother, bhaskarvarman (600–650), the most illustrious of the varman kings who succeeded in turning his kingdom and invading the very kingdom that had taken him captive. bhaskarvarman had become strong enough to offer his alliance with harshavardhana just as the thanesar king ascended the throne in 606 after the murder of his brother, the previous king, by shashanka of gaur. harshavardhana finally took control over the kingless maukhari kingdom and moved his capital to kanauj. the alliance between harshavardhana and bhaskarvarman squeezed shashanka from either side and reduced his kingdom, though it is unclear whether this alliance resulted in his complete defeat. nevertheless, bhaskarvarman did issue the nidhanpur copper-plate inscription from his victory camp in the gaur capital karnasuvarna (present-day murshidabad, west bengal) to replace a grant issued earlier by bhutivarman for a settlement in the sylhet region of present-day bangladesh.
kamarupa