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Inscriptions of the Pala Dynasty of (Gaura or Gauda) Bengal-continued.
Stone
DATE.
OP
Se rial No.
No. in
K's List.
Locality.
King.
Indian.
copperplato or other material.
SEPTEMBER, 1909.)
Parport.
Reforence and Tema k..
A. D.
Regnal.
Era.
636
S.
Ghosrawa, about 7 Dêvapála (menmiles S.-E. of tioned as reigning Bihar, Patna king). Dist., on a slab NOW in Bihar
Mus. Not stated ... Surapala (I or
? 11). Ditto
Ditto
| S.
...
...
1
S.
Records erection by Vira-Ed, and transl., with fncs. by K. in deva, abbot of Nalanda, Ind. Ant., XVII, 307-12; supersedof an edifice to cover al ing earlier incorrect ed. Referred to pajrdsana; and gives in Rep., I, 38; III, 120. No. 3; and many interesting details, XI, 171, also Asc. Geng. of India,
but no royal genealogy. p. 44. ? Dedication ... See next entry. ? Do.
... His successor would appear to have
been Sura Pala, another son of Deva Pala, of whom we possess two short records, of which one is dated in the 13th year of his reign (Rep., XV, 152; and XI, 178). See No. 11 below. It is not likely that Surapala Il reigned for as many as 13 years, but it is possible that either or both of the
inscr, may be his. ? Do. .. ... ... . To him succeeded bis cousin,
Vigraha Påla I, the son of Jaya Pâla. A long inscription of this king will be noticed presently. Only one short record of him has been found dateil in the twelfth year of his reign (Rep. XV, 15). See also Rep. III, p. 121, No. 7, with ref. to Broadley, and note 2 to No. 643 of K's List
THE PALA DYNASTY OF BENGAL
7
...
s.
12 | ...
Bihar town ; on Vigrahapala I.(but ... | pedestal of a might be of V., Buddha.
II or III).
235
? List=K's List of Northeru luscriptions in App. to Ep. Ind. V. His dynastic list of the Pl'as is in the App. to ibid. vol. viii.
