618 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (September, 1911. 
be baseless, and that Gopala was a native of Bengal. Mr. V. A. 
Smith in his well-known Harly History of India (Second Edition, 
. 367) accepts this part of Taranath’s account as genuine 
history, and the only possible objection to it based on the 
Nalanda and Bodh Gaya inscriptions of Gopala is untenable, 
for it has been shown! that on paleographical grounds these 
inscriptions cannot be pushed back to the time of Gopala I, but 
must be assigned to the time of Gopala II, grandson of 
1 Journal and Proceedings of A.S.B., 1908. 
2 Ep. Ind., vol. ix, p. 311. 
8 Ep. Ind., vol. ii, p. 350 
