280 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (July, 1913. 
of v.s. 1232 on the other hand shows that once the country 
belonged to Govindapala, but it had ceased to do soin the 14th 
Bihar) in the 38th year of his reign. Z 
The Bodh-Gaya inscription of La-sarn 74 proves that Gaya 
and the country around it continued in the possession of the 
Sena kings of Bengal. 
Nothing is definitely known about the dissolution of the 
empire of the Palas. The last king of the Pala dynasty, 
whose name has come down to us, was Madanapaladeva. 
According to the Ramacarita of Sandhyakara Nandi, this 
adanapala was a contemporary of Candra-Deva of Mahdaya 
(Kanauj)! :— 
imhisuta _vikranten-arjjunadhamna bhuvah  pradipena 
Kamalavikasa bhesajabhisaja Candrena bandhunopetam (-tam) 
Candicarana-saroja-prasada-sampanna-vigrahasrikatn : 
akhalu Madanam sangesamisam-agad jagad-vijaya-laksmih. 
Consequently, it must be admitted that Mr. Venis’s 
assignment of the date of the Kamauli grant of Vaidyadeva 
is not correct. The true date must lie somewhere between 
1026 a.p. and 1090 a.p. The first date is that of the Sarnath 
1 Ramacarita of Sandhyakara Nandi, Memoirs A.S.B., Vol. IL 
2 Epi. Ind.. Vol. IT, p- 256. 
