12 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [January, 1909. 
Hiuen Tsiang recorded no name of Patharghaté in the seventh 
in mind that the country of Anga was conque and annexed 
to Magadha by King Bimbisara in the sixth century B.C., and 
since then it had fo & pa d parcel of the Mavadh 
1 
dominion! 1 have also shown that Patharghaét& was a place of © 
great sanctity to the Hindus in the seventh century A.D., and the 
Vikramasila-Sanghérama was not founded till the eighth century 
of the Christian era by Dharma-pala, king of Magadha, and that 
its name as recorded by Major Francklin was Sila Sangama, an 
abbreviated and corrupted form of Vikramasila-Sangharama. 
archeological interest which would repay all troubles and ex- 
penses, though no doubt some of the finest sculptures have been 
rem . It is possible also that some inscriptions in stones or 
copperplate grants may be discovered which would at once settle 
the identity of the place. 
! Spence Hardy’s Manual of Buddhism, 2nd Ed., p. 166. 
