17. The Colophons of Four Ancient Sanskrit Manu- 
scripts. 
By R. C. Masumpar. 
In an article in Indian Antiquary, 1918, pp. 109 ff. Mr. 
R. D. Banerji has repeated the statement, originally made in the 
Palas of Bengal,' that Vigrahapala II ruled for 26 years. The 
statement rests upon the colophon of a MS. of the Paficha- 
raksa, which runs as follows :— 
Paramesvara-Paramabhatiaraka-Paramasaugata-Maharaja- 
dhiraja-Srimad-Vigrahapaladevasya pravardhamana-vijayarajye 
(about 15 indistinct aksaras) Samvat 26 Asadha dina 24. 
Mr. Bendall who first published this colophon comments 
on it as follows:—‘‘ There were three sovereigns called Vi- 
grahapala in Bengal between A.D. 910 and 1090. From the 
great similarity, however, between the writing of this MS. and 
that of the Cambridge MSS. written during the reigns of the 
two kings intervening between Vigrahapala II and III it is 
safest to assign this manuscript to one of these reigns, which 
brings the writing of the MS. to either A.D. 1015 or 1100.” . 
In a footnote to the above he remarks :— 
assigned to one of them. (iii) That as by assigning it to 
Vigrahapala III it has to be brought down to so late a period 
as 1100 A.D., or 
Vigrahapala of the colophon with the second king of the same 
name is more probable. 
} Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. V, No. 3, p. 66. 
2 Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the British Museum, 
p. 232. 
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