Extent of Empire of Lalitaditya Muktapida?
score:6
The map, is incorrect. Most of the source about Lalitaditya, is from Kalhan. Neither being a contemporary, nor being independent, Kalhan can be said to have exaggerated. I would like to quote Mohd. Ashraf
The descriptions of his foreign expeditions have a mixture of historical and legendary details. His first enterprise was directed against Yasovarman, the ruler of Kanyakubja or Kanauj. After the defeat of Yasovarman, the King is supposed to have triumphantly marched round whole of India, from Bengal and Orissa in the east to Kathiawar and Kambojas (Afghanistan) in the west. However, the absence of any historical details and the strict geographical order of countries named suggest that these conquests have been more or less of a legendary nature. There is no doubt that all the neighbouring territories such as Kangra and Punch were his feudatories. After defeating Yasovarman, Lalitaditya is supposed to have invaded and subdued Tukharas, a nation in the northern region. The country of Tukharas is undoubtedly the Tokharistan of the Muslim period comprising Badakhshan and the tracts on the Upper Oxus. It is also stated that there were S’ahi princes in the court of Lalitaditya. These were definitely belonging to a family of Turkish origin ruling Kabul Valley and Gandhara. The famous Chinese pilgrim to Kashmir, Ou-k’ong mentions that there were close relations between contemporary Kashmir and Turkish tribes. Turkish prince Cankuna was in the court of Lalitaditya. Alberuni also mentions that Kashmiris of his time used to celebrate annually on a certain day a festival to commemorate the victory which their King Muktapida had won over Turks.
The person who wrote the article, uses rough idea, and on listening 'Turk' and carves out as far as Anatolia on the map. Turks were not in Turkey, until long later. And after all, Wikipedia is a source from the people; it is not absolute.
Upvote:1
It is true this particular king was very energetic and made many campaigns against the Arabs into Persia and even upper central Asia, but these campaigns were just military expeditions, not a controlled empire. The enduring Karkota Empire was much smaller and only lasted for about 200 years. The following map shows the situation in 700 AD and this situation was not fundamentally altered by the Karkotas.
Upvote:4
That map looks like a joke. Like some kid randomly colored in a world map. Even the article doesn't agree with the picture.
The history of kashmir page on wiki shows a much more reasonable extent.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Karkota_Empire%2C_India_%28derived%29.jpg
More post
- 📝 What evidence is there of the vision aids people used before the invention of eyeglasses in about 1286?
- 📝 Which war games did Napoleon practice with his generals?
- 📝 During WW2, what B-29 crew role did the abbreviation EMG mean?
- 📝 Communist resistance groups in the Nazi German military
- 📝 Which Allied aircraft scored the most air-to-air kills against the Me 262 in WWII?
- 📝 What kind of knife is this?
- 📝 When did cultures start to emerge in ancient Peru?
- 📝 How significant was poetry as mnemonic device in technical / philosophical / scientific texts in classical Rome and Greece?
- 📝 What is known about the Ubaid lizard-people figurines?
- 📝 How did Greece avoid the Soviet sphere of influence?
- 📝 Where can I find the complete texts of Churchill's essays on extraterrestrial life?
- 📝 Did Germany's role in WW2 affect the historical perception of its role in WW1?
- 📝 How much Ancient Egyptian survived into modern Coptic & Egyptian Arabic?
- 📝 Since the inception of the United States, has the term "America" ever referred to something more than simply "the United States"?
- 📝 What changed Japanese attitude to POWs in inter-war period?
- 📝 New Latin American navies raiding Spanish interests
- 📝 How did early Judaism and Zoroastrianism influence each other, if they were so far apart?
- 📝 How well did William III speak English at time of the Glorious Revolution in 1688?
- 📝 Why did the Soviet Union lift the Berlin Blockade?
- 📝 Did the Romans install offensive statues in the temples of conquered territories?
- 📝 Why was silage only invented in the 19th century?
- 📝 How to explain the Khalkhin Gol outcome in view of Soviet weakness and Japanese strength at that time?
- 📝 Who was the architect of Uraniborg and Stjerneborg?
- 📝 Who discovered cancer in Egyptian mummies?
- 📝 The monumental/architectural sculptures of Petra - has there been any research on the likely craftsmen who executed them?
- 📝 What political events led to the Separate Car Act that was upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson?
- 📝 Where is Édouard Lucas' grave?
- 📝 When were 'time zones' (or at least time difference) discovered?
- 📝 What was the banquet of chestnuts?
- 📝 Why was the Battle of Noryang fought?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Extent of Empire of Lalitaditya Muktapida?
- 📝 Why did the Western Roman Empire collapse but not the Eastern Roman Empire?
- 📝 When did the Roman Empire fall according to contemporaries?
- 📝 To what extent did Native American cultures develop metalworking for tools and weapons?
- 📝 What happened in Rome, when the western empire "fell"?
- 📝 Why was the Roman Empire considered an empire rather than a kingdom (again)?
- 📝 Why is the late Russian Empire associated with Byzantium while having little in common with it?
- 📝 Why was the northern boundary of the Mongol empire set where it was?
- 📝 How did the gold of the new world cause the Spanish Empire to collapse?
- 📝 What role did the Eastern Roman Empire play in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
- 📝 What prevented the Mongolian Empire from expanding into Europe?
- 📝 Why was the Aztec Empire known as an Empire?
- 📝 Did the Ottoman empire suppress the printing press?
- 📝 To what extent was prohibition supported by the American public?
- 📝 Why is it called the "Ottoman" Empire in English language?
- 📝 To what extent were Polynesians in contact with one-another before European contact?
- 📝 Why did no other empire contest Russia's colonization of North-Asia?
- 📝 Was the Roman Empire based on a 'plunder economy'?
- 📝 Did the Roman Empire have penal colonies?
- 📝 When did the Holy Roman Empire collapse?
- 📝 Is there any possible way to count provinces of the Achaemenid Empire to be 127?
- 📝 Were there punishments in the Roman Empire for not believing in the official religion?
- 📝 Where were the western legions when the Roman empire fell?
- 📝 Did the Inca Empire know about the Polynesians, or vice versa?
- 📝 Where was the furthest extent of Arabian trade explorations?
- 📝 To what extent did the CPC avoid fighting with the Japanese?
- 📝 Why didn't "Europe" support the Byzantine Empire against the Turks?
- 📝 How profitable was India for the British Empire in the 1800s?
- 📝 Did the Roman Empire extend as far north as the Romans could grow wine?
- 📝 How Did the Mongol Empire Get So Big?