Now it was Harsha's responsibility to seek revenge and in due course he was able to establish a strong empire.Īs per Bana's Harshacharita and Harsha's inscriptional records we have the founder as Pushpabhuti followed by Naravardhana= wife Vajrinidevi, Rajyavardhana-I=wife Apsarodevi, Adityavardhana= wife Mahasenaguptadevi, Prabhakaravardhana=wife Yashomatidevi, Rajyavardhana-IIand Harshavardhana. Through treachery by Sasanka, the Gauda king. Rajyavardhana defeated the Malavas but was killed It appears that the Malava and the Gauda kings entered into alliance and even Thaneshwar was threatened.
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The Malava king killed Grahavarman and took Rajyasri prisoner.
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With Prabhakarvardhana's death the family had to face troubled times for a while. According to him an army under Rajyavardhana was sent to defeat the Hunas but due to the sudden illness of his father he had to come back. Banabhatta has described Prabhakarvardhana as "a lion to the Huna deer". Thaneshwar, during this time (about 604 A.D.) was threatened by the Hunas from the western side. Thanesar is now a small town in the vicinity of Kurukshetra in the state of Haryana near Delhi. Prabhakar Vardhan was the first king of the Bains or Virk clan with his capital at Thanesar. Prabhakar Vardhan had two sons and one daughter. Prabhakaravardhana (प्रभाकरवर्धन), also Prabhakar Vardhan, the ruler of Thanesar, who belonged to the Bains or Virk family, extended his control over all other feudatories.