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annexed Magdha to his territories. The Rastrakuta invasion was not a lasting one, 

 like the previous ones, and, at the close of the war, the Gurjjara-Pratiharas re- 

 occupied Magadha. 



According to the Bhagalpur grant, up to the seventeenth year of the king 

 Mudgagiri was in his occupation. After that nothing is known about him. He was 

 succeeded by his son Rajyapaladeva. The names of the other relations of the king 

 are not known. The earliest record of Narayanapala is the Gaya. inscription of the 

 seventh year. This is at present in the courtyard of the Visnupada temple in Gaya 



City. Its discovery was announced by the late Sir Alexander 



Inscriptions of Cunningham in his reports, with a drawing. 1 As this in- 



Narayanapala. ° x 



scription has never before been properly edited, I edit it 



from the original : — 



1. Om jiamo Pitritsottamdya namah \\ Om jayati jagati nathah prasphurac = carumurttir 



=jagad-ari-vinihantd Srl-mad = eko muraris=tadanu-muni-janoya[m] sthira- 

 samkles'a-rds'ih sphura- 



2. -d ' = amala-gundyam dliydna-vrttau sthiratmd \\ Prodbhut-dti-darppa-pravala-mana- 



samtrdsa-hetit-svabhdvam Krtv-aitan-narasingham sphuta-vikata-satam rupam 

 =aty-ugra-raudram ■ ye- 



3. -n = odlrnnah prthivyam khara-nakhara-karair^bhedito daityardjah ^ri-mdn- 



lokaikanatho bhuvana-hita-vidhdtd pdtu yusmdn=sa visnuh i\ Sn-mdn-a^esa- 

 SitliJia-sambhrta-cdm-mii- 



4. -rttih hhadrah siinirmmcda-dhiydm pravavo Srigrdha (?) I Prdptodayddita kule 



sukrti vabhuva yo Vdmadcva iti sarvva-jagat = prtditah ,1 Tasv = dtmajah priya- 

 tamo vidusani samd- 



5. -sit yam Sihadevam-iti vandhu-jano juhava [ 1] Tasydbhavat - sutavaro varadharm- 



mavrttih sammdnito gurujanair-api Vappadevah 11 Sarvvdrtha-siddhikaran-aika 

 -nidhdna-bhutd sau- 



6. -ndarya-garhlhi-ruar-amala-rfipa-scnnptd patnl cot tasya kamal=eva sadd praSastd 



khyatd bhavaj = jagati Vallabhadevy=at=istd 11 Tdbhydm = ajanydm = ajdyata 

 sitto-nuda- 



7. -dh(U / )nmii<n^tir = vvdk-kriya-citta-krtti-samyamano-bhimdnl[\]Brahm-opavUa-carite 



vrata-sahgata-s'rih yo Bhdndadeva iti pit r warn = iha pratitah \\ Vidyul = loldm 

 ks ana-par in atlm 



8. samskrtdnam viditvd janmottrasdd = amala-bhuvana prdptum = abhyudgatena [1] 



yen=dty =artham sukrta-matibhis = sevite dhy ana-mar gge ceto-nyastam [su]vima- 

 lamalam jnanam = dsvadand- 



9. -ya a Ten=dneka-dvija-jana bhuvi prcma-vrttyd Gaydydm £ri-mdd = eso yatisu 



vihita [h] sad-gun-dvdsa-vdsah jndtam Sreyo yad = amala-gunam vrahma-caryds'ra- 

 mcna tend- 

 To. stvataj =] agad = amalinam ksina-samkles'a-rds'ih || Cdtur-vvidyam-samastam prasa- 

 mita-kalus'am vrahma-samnyasta-vrttim Srlmantam sat = kriydtmd prathita- 

 prthu-gunam prdrthaya- 



Cunningham, Arch. Surv. Rep., Vol. Ill, p. 120, No. 6, pt. XXXVI. 



