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Dayita-Visnu. 



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\ apyata. 



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(1) Gopala I = Deddadevi. 





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 (2) Dharmapala = Rannadevi. \ akpala 



Tribhuvanapala. (3) Devapala. Javapala. 



Rajyapala. (4) Silrapala I or 



Vigrahapala I. 



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 (5) Xaravanapala. 



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(6) Rajyapala = Bhagyadevi 



(7) Gopala II. 



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 (8) Vigrahapala II. 



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 (9) Mahlpala I. 



(10) Xayapala. 



(11) Vigrahapala III = Yauvana-6ri 



(12) Mahipala II. (13) Surapala II. (14) Ramapala. 



(15) Kumarapala. (17) Madanapala = Chitra 



Matika Devi. 



(16) Gopala III. 



By a comparison of the above we see that Taranatha's state- 

 ments, like the accounts given in the genealogical works of 

 Bengal, are altogether baseless and cannot be accepted as his- 

 torical data unless they are supported by external evidence. 

 Taranatha has said that in a work by Ksemendra-bhadra of 

 Magadha a detailed account of the events lias been given down 

 to the reign of Ramapala, and that in the fl Buddhapurana/' 

 a work 3aid to have been written by Indradatta of Ksatriya 

 caste, the history of the first four kings of the Sena dynasty is 

 to be found. But these two works are yet to be discovered, 

 and the mere mention of their names by Taranatha cannot, at 

 present, be of any use to us. Ghulam Husain Salim of Maldah, 

 the author of Riyaz-us-Salatin, has said in many places of his 

 book that the accounts collected therein have been found in 

 certain works, but he has not given their names, and up till 

 now > in no work have been found those new facts which have 



