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Prabhakaravardhana
Maharaja
4th King of Thanesar
Reignc. 580 – c. 605 CE
PredecessorAdityavardhana
SuccessorRajyavardhana
SpouseYasomati
IssueRajyavardhana
Harsha
Rajyashri
DynastyPushyabhuti dynasty
FatherAdityavardhana
MotherMahasenagupta

Prabhakaravardhana (also known as Prabhakara Vardhana) was a king of

Banabhatta, the seventh-century bard and chronicler of the Vardhanas, may have been wrong to call these earlier rulers kings and that they may instead have been mere feudatory rulers of minor significance.[3]

Prabhakaravardhana's father, Adityavardhana, had formed an alliance with Mahasenagupta of

Sind, he also resisted the invasion of the Hunas,[5] as reported by the 7th century writer Bāṇabhaṭṭa.[6][7]

The date of death of Prabhakaravardhana is variously stated: according to Majumdar, it was in 604 CE but some sources, such as the military historian Kaushik Roy, say 606 CE, and others state 605.[1][3][5] He was married to Yasomati, who became sati.[8]

Prabhakaravardhana and Yasomati had three children. Their eldest son, Rajyavardhana, succeeded to the throne and was in turn succeeded by the younger son, Harsha; their daughter, Rajyashri, married Grahavarman of the Maukhari dynasty that ruled Kannauj.[5][a]

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  1. ^ a b c Majumdar (1977), pp. 249–250
  2. ^ a b Sen (1999), p. 247
  3. ^ a b c Allan, Haig & Dodwell (1934), p. 105
  4. ^ Roy (2013a), p. 82
  5. ^ a b c Roy (2013b), pp. 21–22
  6. Indus land, a troubler of the sleep of Gujarat king, a billious plague to that scent-elephant, the lord of Gandhara, a destroyer of the skill of the Latas.", Ancient Indian History and Civilization by Sailendra Nath Sen p.253
  7. ^ The Cambridge Shorter History of India p.105
  8. ^ Tripathi (1989), p. 73
  9. ^ Sengupta (2011), pp. 34–35

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  • Roy, Kaushik (2013b), "Bana", in Coetzee, Daniel; Eysturlid, Lee W. (eds.), Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers, ABC-CLIO,
  • Sen, Sailendra Nath (1999), Ancient Indian History and Civilization, New Age International,
  • Sengupta, Nitish K. (2011), Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib, Penguin Books India,
  • Tripathi, Rama Shankar (1989) [1964], History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest (Reprinted ed.), Motilal Banarsidass,