What it says
Kalhana says he consulted earlier chronicles, the Nilamata Purana, temple foundation inscriptions and land grants. He tells of Lalitaditya’s campaigns, Avantivarman’s engineer Suyya who drained the Jhelum floods, and the misrule of Harsha of Kashmir, who stripped temples of their images. A historian, he writes, should be like a judge, free of love and hate.
What it proves
It is the oldest surviving history of a region of Bharat written as continuous history, and much of it is confirmed by coins and inscriptions.
