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The Maukharis paving the way for the glory of Harshavardhana

  • UPSC 1988
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

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Harsha's meteoric rise is conventionally read as the product of his own military energy and diplomatic skill, yet a closer look at the crisis of 606 CE shows him inheriting a frontier already secured, a capital already built, and rivals already exhausted — all of it the work of the Maukharis of Kannauj before he…

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  • Clearing the frontier: Isanavarman and the Huna threat
  • Marriage and inheritance rather than conquest
  • The Later Gupta-Gauda axis: rivals weakened in advance
  • Consolidation under Harsha: building on a Maukhari base
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