670 Continuation of notes on Hindu Coins. [Dec. 



name €handra being frequently omitted both in writings and in 

 inscriptions. But the remaining coins of our series, two of them hav- 

 ing the family name Pdla, cannot be reconciled with any of the prin- 

 ces in the short Rdhtore line, of which every individual from the first 

 conqueror Chandra deVa, in A. D. 1072, is known to us through the 

 concurrent testimony of several inscriptions. What wa3 the antecedent 

 dynasty ? has been a question hitherto imperfectly answered ; the tra- 

 ditions cited by Colonel Ton being, as stated in my last paper, at total 

 variance with inscriptions. The latter indeed only record two names, 

 Yasovigraha (or Sripdla ?) and Mahichandra prior to the conquest 

 of Chandra deVa. The latter of these should probably have been 

 Mahipala, of whose reign in the early part of the eleventh centu- 

 ry, the inscriptions at Sdrndth, Dindjpur, and A'mgdchi supply ample 

 evidence, now indeed confirmed by the superscription of his coin in 

 fig. 5. Yasovigraha, in like manner, may be referred to the Vigraha- 

 pala deVa of the Dindjpur inscription, and thus the sur-name of Pdla 

 may be restored to both these princes. 



Although Gaur in Bengal was the original seat of the Pdla family, 

 there is no reason to doubt that they had acquired the paramount 

 sovereignty of India, and that the seat of their government was fixed 

 for a time at least in Canouj. Indeed, branches of the same family may 

 be traced to the westward — to the Pdlas of Malwa, one of whom 

 (Anangapala) rebuilt Delhi, or re-established it as his capital ; and 

 perhaps even to Guzerat, where we find the occurrence of a Kumara 

 pa'la, in 1100, who may probably be the owner of our coin, fig. 4, 

 especially as his son is named Ajaya Pala, who may be the Ajaya 

 de'va of figs. 7, 8. In evidence of the identity of this family, it may 

 be sufficient to note a few facts, referring to the elaborate observations 

 of Wilford, and the subsequent notices of Colebrooke, and those of 

 Fell, and Wilson, in the 15th volume of the Asiatic Researches. 



The list of the kings of Gualior, noticed by Wilford, consists of 

 85 names, all having the affix oiPdla, " in accordance with the predic- 

 tion of Guapdla the hermit, their progenitor* ." Now the founder of 

 the Gaur family of Bengal is equally a Gopdla, though some au- 

 thorities call him Bhupdla, a name of much the same import, and de- 

 noting his rustic extraction. 



Again, the grandson of Anangapala, the Tudr conqueror of Delhi, 

 is stated to have returned to Gaur, " his native country," after the 

 defeat and death of Prithivi Pa'la, oiPithaura. Thus Anangapala 

 too whs of the Bengal family : moreover he was either the grandson or 

 the fifth in descent from Chandra Pdla-f, or Chaitra Pula\, oiMdlwd, 

 * As. Res. ix. 154. f Ayin Akberi. % Wilford. 



