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saya. It narrates that the king Yasgovarmma of Kanyakubja 
irasted East India; that the Magadha king fled before him 
(verse 354) ; that the vassals and nobles of Magadha king, feeling 
ashamed, returned to fight (v. 414) ; that the defeated and pursued 
Magadha king was killed (v. 917) ; that then proceeding to the 
coast of cocoanuts Yasovarmma con quered the Vabgas powerful 
with means: (vv. 418-421). Evidently on this slaying of the 
Magadha king and his army, the poet calls the subject Gawda-vaho 
in verse 1074, and again says Gauda-gala-ccheya- valagga-samthe- 
edvali or the necklace of Gauda necks in verse 1194. At that time 
Gauda, therefore, included Magadha. The date of deta Map he 
is dependent on ‘the time of Lalitaditya, King of Kasmir, who, 
according to Raja-tar angint,! defeated him. Roughly it falls i in 
the second quarter of the eighth century A.D. 
In the following inscriptions Gauda is urns as a king- 
dom generally. In the Wani and Radhanp ates of the 
Rastrakita Govinda III, it is ‘tiated that his nae Govinda II, 
surnamed Dhruva, drove ‘into the trackless desert Vatsaraja, 
th 
(and Kananj ?) in Saka 705 or A.D. mons the year in which 
the Jaina Harivamsa of s finis shed. Similarly the 
In the second half of she oa wee the Pala kings 
, van rose into power, and gradually became 
or aa eee meee aie wn as rulers of Gauda. The earliest 
OE — epigraphical mention of them as Gaud- 
esvara is to be found in thie Budal pillar inscription of Gurava 
Misra, in which this title is applied to Deva-pala.5 But his 



j-tar., taranga IV, 133f., Stein, I, 132. aig nae is also credited 
with ‘the conquest of f Gauda- mandala, IV. 148, Stein I, 135 :— 
ikr. sta- Laksmi-paryanka o dantevabliyadwtecagilla ah \ 
Asiariyam = stam nihsesa dantino Gauda- mandalat 14811 
amberless elephants joined him from the Ganda land, as if attracted 
by i ndsbip for aur a [carrying] the conch of Laks mi, who was 
d [to the 
sitached[ [to 248, lines 12-18; Wani plate Ind. Ant, 
15 li ox 13. . 
XI, ‘S 7 t. XII, 160, line 39, Gaud-endra-Vanga- pati ategeye 
: ag hie _ line 6; ‘the corresponding part in Sirtr i inscription 
e 
tan for Gau 
has z. Il, ‘fea, line 14. According to Taranath, the Tibetan ae ey 
5 Ep.In 
‘Vorshlite: and Orissa were conquered by Devapala son of Gopal; A.S eis 
111. 
