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The Maukharis paving the way for the glory of Harshavardhana
- UPSC 1988
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
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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