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the names are the same.'! The general agreement in respect 
of locality and the names of two successive kings lends great 
weight to the supposition. 
he date we have assumed for the Khadga kings also 
throws interesting light on the origin of the “famous Pala 
dynasty. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri came across 
a commentary on Prajna Paramita in the Durbar Library of 
Nepal, which was written by one Haribhadra during the reign 
of Dharmapala. Haribhadra who mentions this fact in the 
colophon qualifes Dharmapala by the epithet ‘ Rajabhat-adi- 
Vamsa-patita.’* It would then follow that Dharmapala was a 
scion of the family of Rajabhata, son of Devakhadga, and this 
hypothesis gains additional strength when we remember that 
‘ss th the Palas and the Khadgas were Buddhist kings. Mr. 
D. Banerji rejected this hypothesis* on the ground that 
Eettiaes was later than Dharmapala. But if, as we have 
shown above, there are good grounds for placing Devakhadga 
and Rajabhata towards the close of the seventh century A.D. 
Haribhadra’s statement about the relations between the Palas 
and the Khadgas cannot be lightly thrown away. The 
proximity, in point of time, and the identity, in respect of 
locality and religion, between the two dynasties invests it with 
@ certain degree of credibility, and further enquiry on this line 
may reveal an undiscovered chapter in the early history of the 
Palas. That is however an oe different topic and for the 
accepted as settled, ways would be clear for further inquiry 
on the line suggested above. 


! As to the difference in the name-endings in Deva-Khadga and Deva- 
Varma it may be tte out that Varma is a well-known epithet 
assumed by royal personages and it is not unlikely that the title of 
Khadga was oe interchanged with that of Faris, both referring 
to instruments of wa the Rashtrakita king Dantidurga, for example, 
was Rnown also as antivir rimma. 
2 Mm astri came across a commentary on Prajiia Paramita 
in the Durbar Library of Ne 
ommenting on Dr. Rajendra Lal Mitra’s notice of Prajfia Paramita 
dg . Pao Buddhist a of Nepal by R. L. Mitra—Calcutta 1882, 
rp ~l185 No. A. 17) Mm H. P. Sastri remarks at the cnd of his own 
apy oe the sa ee, 2 Mitra is wrong in attributing the commentary 
P.P. to Maitreya...... e Tikato the P.P. 8,00 is —— Haribadra whe 
wrote his rk in ther Lesa of Dharmapala After the 
