One of North India's most celebrated heroes, king Harsha (ca. 590-647) was a gifted warrior-administrator, a sensitive poet and playwright, and a generous patron of religions and the arts. From the middle of the 5th century North India was subjected to...

(c. 590–647 CE), Indian ruler and poet. Born in Thaneswar, Harsa (also Harsha or Harsavardhana) brought order to northern India when he conquered the region and became king (reigned 606–647). Harsa first ascended the throne of a small...

c. 590-647 Indian ruler who created the only stable kingdom in the densely populated northern part of the subcontinent between the fall of the Gupta Empire in 540 and the first Arab invasions nearly two centuries later. Though he was primarily a...

King Harshavardhana (606–647) ruled over all N. India as the last of India’s great Bst. rulers. After years of fighting he ruled the country as Asoka (q.v.) before him, as a tolerant, enlightened and progressive monarch. A patron of the...

Harsh or Harshavardhana (हर्षवर्धन) (590–647) was an Indian emperor who ruled Northern India for over forty years. He was the son of Prabhakar Vardhan and younger brother of Rajyavardhan, a king of Thanesar. At the height of his...