Vol. IX, No. 7.] Laksmanasena. : 281 
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inscription of Mahipala!' and the second that of the Candravats 
plate of Candra-Deva.? Nothing is known about ala 
kings during the first sixty years of the twelfth century. 
Govindapaladeva ascended the throne in 1161 a.p. It is 
generally supposed that he belonged to the Pala dynasty but 
there is no direct evidence in support of this statement. But 
two things are in favour of the above statements. His name 
ends with the word Pala and he was a Buddhist. Even after 
his destruction Buddhist scribes have continued to use his 
name in the colophons of manuscripts for several years. The 
extent of his kingdom is uncertain. But as has been already 
observed, he ruled over a portion of Magadha or South Bihar 
and was gradually losing ground before the Senas. He had a 
long reign of thirty-seven years. If the Tabagat-i-Nasiri is to 
be trusted then the modern city of Bihar was his last strong- 
hold. He was crushed by the Mussulmans in the 38th year of 
his reign (1199 a.p.). 
Christian era remnants of the Pala empire seem ave become 
the prey of the sect kings. ithe rarnacleah ens of 
Kanauj invaded Mag n 1146 a.p. and advan as far as 
Mudgagiri or Mungir. ate ording to one of his bsp blaté 
grants discovered in the village of Lar in the Gorakhpur dis- 
trict, Govindacandra, when in residence in Mudgagiri, bestowed 
Ee vebiy indicates that Gisudacthdra overran Magadha 
1146 a.p. Twenty-five oe afterwards, we find that “Gaya is is 
bkobably nee wero not on Mes terms. It is even hinted in 
one of the Bengali works on the Dharma cult discovered by 
Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Sastri that the Buddhists | 
anual Report of this Ave, fadevey. ee Lidia; 3 1903-04, p- 229 
pl. isin, ‘No. oe 
> Epi. I ; Vol. IX, p. 302. 
s Bondall’s ‘Cat. of Sans. MSS in the Univ. Liby., Cambridge, Bud- 
—— Sans. MS 
Haverty - a of the Tabagat-i-Nasirt, Bib. Ind. 
Epi. Ind., III, p. 98. 
§ Mahamah opal ay Hara Prasad Sastri’s ‘‘ Discovery of living 
Buddhism in Bengal,’’ 
