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TRIBES IN ANCIENT INDIA
that in the middle of the tenth century A.D., the Kāmbojas again attacked North Bengal, and that its present inhabitants (of Koch, Mech, and Paliā) are descended from them. The Kāmboja rulers were expelled by Mahīpāla I, the ninth king of the Pāla line, who is known to have been reigning in A.D. 1026, and may be assumed to have regained his ancestral throne about A.D. 978 or 980.2
1 Banerjee, Vāngālār Itihāsa, p. 205. 2 V. A. Smith, Early History of India, 4th Ed., pp. 414-15.
