JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
New Series. 
Vol. XVII.—1921. 
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1. The Chronology of the Pala Kings. 
By R. C. Masumpar, M.A., Px.D. 
The oe of the Pala kings has, for a long time, 
formed a subject of keen discussion. It will serve no useful 
purpose to Saati the earlier views on the subject, as they 
were necessarily based upon insufficient materials and errone- 
ous data. The first systematic attempt to reconstruct the 
main outline of the Pala chronology on a reliable basis was 
made by the late Dr. V. A, Smith in 1909.! In the follow- 
ing year M.M. Haraprasad Sastri made a useful contribution 
about the initial date of Dharmapala in his aspirin to 
Ramacarita.? The subject was next seriously taken up by 
Mr. Radasoracea Chanda and Mr. R. D Banerji. Mr. Chanda’s 
Bengali work ‘ Gauda-raja-mala ’ appeared in 1912-3, although 
the views expressed therein about the Pala Chronology were 
somewhat modified four years later.6 Mr. Banerji’s ‘Palas of 
Bengal’* was published in 1915, but his views were re-stated, 
with substantial modifications, in his Bengali work ‘ Banglar 
Itihasa ’ published in the Bengali year 1321 (1914-15 A.D.). 
The only contribution that has since been made to our know- 
pee of the Pala chronology is a paper by Mr. niga in 
which, among other things, a short i is given of a 
fnaoriptictd of the 24th year of Rajyapal 
Tn discussing the views of Dr. Smith it must be remem- 
I Ind. Ant., 1909, p. 233 
2 Memoirs of the detec Society of Bengal, Vol. III. 
* MGnasi (a haa Monthly ), Vol. VII, part I, PP. 577 ff., 657 ff. 
+ Memoirs of the A ge ‘Soviety of Bengal, Vol. V 
* Ind. Ant., 1918, p. 
