Question

The Chalukyan ruler Pulakeshin's victory over Harsha was in the year
1. 612 A.D.
2. 618 A.D.
3. 622 A.D.
4. 634 A.D.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 618 A.D.

The correct answer 618 A.D.

• Pulakeshin, who ruled from the Chalukyan capital of Badami, challenged Harsha's conquests.
• The former had established himself as ‘lord paramount’ of the south, as Harsha had of the north.
• The date of Pulakeshi's great triumph over Harsha in a battle fought primarily with elephants, on the banks of the Narmada has been fixed at 618 AD by decoding a copper plate of Pulakeshin II.
• Pulakeshin assumed the title of Parameshwara, Satyashraya, Prithvivallabha, Dakshinapatheshwara after this famous victory.
• Harshabardhan went back to his capital after this incident. The treaty signed between the two meant that the Narmada became the boundary between Harsha’s empire and the Chalukya empire.