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most probably a general. 1 Kedaramisra continued as minister under Surapala I 

 or Vigrahapala I, and his son Guravamisra was the minister of Narayanpala. The 

 second verse in the Badal pillar inscription about the campaigns of Devapala runs 

 as follows : — 



Utkilit-otkala-kulam hrta-huna-garvvam kharvvlkrta-dravida-gurjjaranatha-dar- 



ppafn, 

 Bhft-pitham - abdhi-ra&a n = abharanamvubhoja Gaudes'varas' = ciram = upasya dhi- 



yam yadiydrn — verse 13. 



"Attending to his (Kedaramisra' s) wise counsel the lord of Gauda long 

 ruled the sea-girt earth, having eradicated the race of the Utkalas, humbled 

 the pride of the Hunas, and scattered the conceit of the rulers of Dravida and 

 Gurjjara." 



The invasion of Utkala is a new point, but the fight with the Hunas perhaps 



is the same as that with the Kambojas referred to in the 

 Devapala, his wars. . 



Monghyr grant. We know from an independent source that 



there was a war with the Dravidas, i.e. the Rastrakutas. In the Nilgund inscription 



Amoghavarsa I, it is stated that he was " worshipped by the lords of Vahga, 



Ahga, Magadha, Malava and Vehgi": — 



A ri-nrpati-makitta-ghattita-caranas = sakala-bhuvana-vandita-s'auryyah , 

 V amg-amga-M agadha-Mdlava-V erngiSair = arccito = tis'ayadhavalah. j-8.' 1 



Amoghavarsa I seems to have been the contemporary of Devapala as we know 

 that his father Govinda III was of Dharmmapala. The first three names: Vahga, 

 Ahga and Magadha, must refer to one and the same kingdom as we know from 

 inscriptions that Vahga, Ahga and Magadha were under Devapala, viz. the Monghyr 

 grant and the Ghosrawan inscription. The Rastrakuta invasion was most probably 

 over within a very short time, like those under the predecessors of Amoghavarsa I, 

 and at its close, in spite of the reverses, Devapala was left master of Northern India. 

 The war with the Gurjaras was either followed by the invasion of Amoghavarsa I, 

 or itself followed that. In either case it is quite clear that the Gurjara king 

 Ramabhadra suffered this reverse at the hands of this king of Bengal, for neither 

 in the Gurjara copper-plate grants nor in their stone inscriptions are any victories 

 assigned to him. 



During the reign of Devapala, a Brahmana named Viradeva, an inhabitant 

 of Nagarahara, came on a pilgrimage to the Mahabodhi and paid a visit to the 

 Yasovarmmapura Vihara. During his stay in Magadha, Devapala heard of him 

 and he was made the principal abbot of Nalanda. 3 The Monghyr grant was 

 issued to record the grant of a village named Mesika, in the Krimila Visaya, 

 and the SrI-nagara bhukti, to a brahmana named Vihekarata, of the Aupamanyava 

 gotra and the Asvalayana Sakha, in the 33rd year of the king. The dutaka of the 

 grant was the king's son Rajyapala. There is a vast mass of MSS. literature 



l Epi. Ind, Vol II, p. 162, verse 9. 2 Ibid., Vol. VI. p. 103. 8 ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 309. 



