This little book The Singnificance of Yuan Chwang in the Context of the Seventh Century: A Critical Assessments essentially a critique of the reliability of the Chinese pilgrim as a source of the history of Harshavardhana (606-647 A.D.). His travelogue Hsi Yu Chi, or Buddhist Records of the Western World assumes greater significance when it is studied against the background of the strengthening of feudal tendencies of the seventh century which for the first time became manifest in the Gupta age.