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{{Infobox royalty<br />
| title = [[Maharaja]]<br />
| succession = 4th King of [[Thanesar]]<br />
| reign = {{circa|580|605 CE}}<br />
| predecessor = [[Adityavardhana]]<br />
| successor = [[Rajyavardhana]]<br />
| spouse = [[Yasomati]]<br />
| issue = [[Rajyavardhana]] <br/>[[Harsha]] <br/>[[Rajyashri]]<br />
| dynasty = [[Pushyabhuti dynasty]] <br />
| father = [[Adityavardhana]]<br />
| mother = Mahasenagupta<br />
}}<br />
'''Prabhakaravardhana''' (also known as '''Prabhakara Vardhana''') was a king of [[Thanesar]] in northern India around the time of the decline of the [[Gupta Empire]]. According to the historian [[R. C. Majumdar]], he was the first notable king of the [[Vardhana dynasty]] but the fourth ruler from the family,{{sfnp|Majumdar|1977|pp=249-250|ps=}} who are also referred to as the Pushpabhutis.{{sfnp|Sen|1999|p=247|ps=}} He had been preceded by his father, [[Adityavardhana]], grandfather Rajyavardhana I and great-grandfather, Naravardhana, but inscriptions suggest that [[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.{{sfnp|Allan|Haig|Dodwell|1934|p=105|ps=}}<br />
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Prabhakaravardhana's father, Adityavardhana, had formed an alliance with Mahasenagupta of [[Magadha]] against the [[Maukhari]] dynasty.{{sfnp|Roy|2013a|p=82|ps=}}{{sfnp|Sen|1999|p=247|ps=}} He was married to Mahasenagupta, who was probably the sister of this Gupta king who bore the same name. Through these arrangements he had much enlarged the family's estates. It is because of this territorial expansion that, while Adityavardhana bore the title of ''[[Maharaja#Compound_and_dynastic_ruler_titles|maharaja]]'', his son was able to use the higher rank of ''maharajadhiraja''.{{sfnp|Allan|Haig|Dodwell|1934|p=105|ps=}} In turn, Prabhakaravardhana further extended Vardhana control, using aggressive tactics that resulted in him probably ruling over the [[Punjab]] and part of [[Malwa]].{{sfnp|Majumdar|1977|pp=249-250|ps=}} Aside from defeating rulers in [[Gujarat]], [[Gandhara]] and [[Sind]], he also resisted the invasion of the [[Huna people|Hunas]],{{sfnp|Roy|2013b|pp=21-22|ps=}} as reported by the 7th century writer [[Bāṇabhaṭṭa]].<ref>[[Bāṇabhaṭṭa]] credits Prabhakaravardhana with a strong stance against the Hunas, describing him as:"A lion to the Huna deer, a burning fever to the king of the [[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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&pg=PA253 p.253]</ref><ref>The Cambridge Shorter History of India [https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105 p.105]</ref><br />
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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.{{sfnp|Majumdar|1977|pp=249-250|ps=}}{{sfnp|Allan|Haig|Dodwell|1934|p=105|ps=}}{{sfnp|Roy|2013b|pp=21-22|ps=}} He was married to [[Yasomati]], who became ''[[sati (practice)|sati]]''.{{sfnp|Tripathi|1989|p=73|ps=}}<br />
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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]].{{sfnp|Roy|2013b|pp=21-22|ps=}}{{efn|The marriage of Rajyashri and Grahavarman appears to have been an alliance of the two dynasties against the king of the [[Malava kingdom|Malavas]].{{sfnp|Sengupta|2011|pp=34-35|ps=}} It was a reversal of the earlier enmity between the Vardhanas and Maukharis.}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Asigarh Fort]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
'''Notes'''<br />
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'''Bibliography'''<br />
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*{{citation |editor1-first=J. |editor1-last=Allan |editor2-first=T. Wolseley |editor2-last=Haig |editor3-first=H. H. |editor3-last=Dodwell |title=The Cambridge Shorter History of India |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1934 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ}}<br />
*{{citation |title=Ancient India |first=Ramesh Chandra |last=Majumdar |authorlink=Ramesh Chandra Majumdar |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |year=1977 |origyear=1952 |isbn=978-8-12080-436-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNxiN5tzKOgC}}<br />
*{{citation |title=Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers |chapter=Kautilya |first=Kaushik |last=Roy |editor1-first=Daniel |editor1-last=Coetzee |editor2-first=Lee W. |editor2-last=Eysturlid |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2013a |isbn=978-0-313-07033-4 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DW2jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA21}}<br />
*{{citation |title=Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers |chapter=Bana |first=Kaushik |last=Roy |editor1-first=Daniel |editor1-last=Coetzee |editor2-first=Lee W. |editor2-last=Eysturlid |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2013b |isbn=978-0-313-07033-4 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DW2jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA21}}<br />
*{{citation |title=Ancient Indian History and Civilization |first=Sailendra Nath |last=Sen |publisher=New Age International |year=1999 |isbn=978-8-122-41198-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC}}<br />
*{{citation |title=Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib |first=Nitish K. |last=Sengupta |publisher=Penguin Books India |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-14341-678-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVSh_TyJ0YoC&pg=PA34}}<br />
*{{citation |title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest |first=Rama Shankar |last=Tripathi |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |year=1989 |origyear=1964 |isbn=978-8-120-80404-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC}}<br />
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