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1921.] The Chronology of the Pala Kings. 5 
years to Gopala II. Subtracting 194+30 from 1026, which 
we have shown to have been practically the last date of 
considerably increased but for the fact that there are reasons 
to believe that Dharmapala met Govinda III in about 808 A.D! 
This early date of Dharmapala is corroborated by a verse 
in the Safijana copper-plate of Amaghavarsa’ which informs us 
that the Rastrakita king Dhruva defeated a king of Gauda 
and the political condition of the Gauda kingdom, just before 
the Pala period, is hardly compatible with the view that any 
of its kings could — his sphere of influence as far as 
Allahabad in the west. The argument that such an early 
date of Dinecaaphla: ill suits the “supposition that he married 
the daughter of Paravala, who is known to have ruled in 761 
weight, for the identity of this Paravala 
with ‘the father-in- -law of Dharmapala must de upo 
date of the latter, and, besides, the published facsimile raises 
great doubts about the correctness of the reading of the date in 
the oe aa inscription 
As a of the foregoing discussion the following 
Sxunalowie ‘ante of the Pala kings may be offered with some 
degree of certain 
Name of — Known reign-period. es emcee 
ace 
I. Gopala coe 770 A.D 
II. Dharmapala 32 years 18055, 
TI. eitiae ec ee 815, 
! unpublished Pn: in the possession of Prof. D.R. 
Hhasidasbae, who was kind enough to allow me to make use of it refers 
akg harmapala waited upon him. The same in- 
scription also tells us that Govinda III defeated the Gurjara-Pratihara 
king Nagabhata. iti is reasonable to hold that both these events took 
in n 
the two, for the lat cre is practically a — of the es 
one head bites be e tsesoaians addition, viz. the reference to the Gurjar 
expedi s both the oi ants are dated i in the Saka year 730, the hats 
of the or a expedition of Govinda III may be plac ned at about 808 
ses 
2 This is the unpublished copper-plate referred to in the last note. 
