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Britannica reference for Shashanka as king of Gauda and early 7th-century power expansion in the Bengal region.
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Early 7th century
In the early 7th century, Shashanka, king of Gauda, expanded authority over a substantial part of the Ganges valley and represented one of the earliest major sovereign political formations centered on Bengal.