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Inscriptions of the Pala Dynasty of (Gaura or Gauda) Bengal-continued.
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DATE.
Se rial No.
No, in
K's List.
Stone
or copperplate or other material.
Locality.
King
Indian.
Par; ort.
Reforence and Remaršs.
A. D.
Regnal.
Era.
Gaya; lying near Vigrahapala I.(but the Akshay-bat might be of V., temple,
II or III).
9
637
1 ...
8. Gayâ : on slab in Narayanapala
court-yard of Vi
shņupad temple. C. P. Bhagalpur; now Same king
in A. S. B.
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
10
Not known ... .
There is a long inscription of this king, 27 inches long by 21 inches high, now lying near the Akshay-bat Temple at Gayai. Unfortunately, the lower right corner is broken off, leaving the unfinished word samvatsa to show that it once bad a date. It is generally in very bad condition, and I doubt if it can be deciphered satisfactorily'
(Rep. XV, 152). Apparently royal dedica- Noticed in Rep. III, 120, No. 6; with
tion of an image incorrect reduced facs. in PL. XXXVi; (múrtti).
but never ed, or transl. Official grant by the king Ed., transcribed, and transl. by of a village in Tira- Hultzsch in Ind. Ant., XV (1886), bhukti; genealogy of p. 804 ; superseding the ed. and k. from Gopala ; transl. (with photo, face.) in J. A. Dharmapale’s installa- 8. B. Part I, Vol. XLVII (1878), tion of Chakrayudha; p. 384. list of officials, etc.; issued from Mudgagiri. Records erection by a Ed. and transl. by K. in Ep. Ind., II,
Brahman named Guruval 160, with facs. ; superseding the Misra of a pillar sur incorrect account in T. A. S. B., mounted by a garuda; Part. I, Vol. XLIII (1874), p. 856; eulogy of the Brahman's and the editio princeps by Sir Ch. family which supplied mi- Wilkins and Sir Wm. Jones in nisters tothekingsnamed. As. Res., Vol. 1 (1781), pp. 131-44 The dedicator is men- with sketch of the pillar, and specimen tioned as Bhatta Guruval facs, of text. For inser. of Sarapala in inscription 10 above. see above, Nos. 5, 6.
638
11
689
S.
Badal (Bodal, Bu- Same king ;* with
dal, Buddal), 259 mention of his 5' N., 88° 58' E., three predecesin the south of sors, Dharma the Dinajpur (pala), Dévapala, Dist.; on # pillar and Sûrapala. about a mile N. of the town.
[SEPTEMBER, 1909.
