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the Cali'Yuga about 1000 years B. C. this will make 

 his reign coincide nearly with the period assigned to 

 it by the Paiirdtiics, 



The last king of Bengal was Lacshman'yah, who 

 was deprived of his kingdom by Muiiammed Bak- 

 THYAR, the general of Cotub-uddin, about the year 

 1207 ; for, in 1209 the same general was in Gujarat^ 

 and the emperor died also in that year. From the 

 first of 'Sri-Carn'a-De'va, or 'Sudraca, to 1207, 

 there elapsed 1017 years, during which reigned 4i^ 

 kings, at the rate of about 20. 7 years to each reign. 

 The last dynasty in this list, consists of seven princes, 

 who reigned 106 years in all. 



The dynasty next to this is remarkable for the 

 epithet of Fala^ which every one of them added 

 to his own name or title. The first of that d^'nasty 

 was Bhu'-pala, who was still alive in the 3ear of 

 Vicrama'ditya 1083, answering to the year of 

 Christ, either 1017, or 1027. Bhu'-pa'la had two 

 sons, Sthira-pala and Vasanta-pa'la, who erected 

 a singular, and at the same time sumptuous monu- 

 ment, in honor of Budd'ha, at a place called Sanidth, 

 near Benares. This was in the year of Vicrama'- 

 ditya 1083, as recorded in an inscription found 

 there some years ago, and inserted in the fifth volu.ne 

 of the Asiatic Researches. Tradition says, that be- 

 fore it was completed, it was destroyed by the ]\Iusul- 

 mans ; and there is every reason to believe, that this 

 was really the case. For the arches and vaults of 

 the greatest part of the buildings which are now 

 buried under ground, still retain the supports of sun- 

 dried bricks, over which the arches were turned. In 

 the year 1017 Sultan Mahmud took Boiares, and 

 the town of Casam, or Cusiima, now Patna, and 

 went even as far as the country of Owov7«dfw, or Unga, 

 to the west of the Cossim-bazar river. The next 

 year, he overrun again these countries, and penetrated 



