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tions of the Government of Bengal. There is no record about it in the Office of 

 the Indian Museum. I edit it from an excellent inked impression made for me by 

 Babu Hari Das Datta, of the Archaeological Survey, Eastern Circle, at the order of 

 the late Dr. T. Bloch. 



(i) Om Samvat 9 VaiStikha Sudi 5 Parame^vara-Srl-Ndrdyanapdladeva-rdjye 

 Andhra-vaisayika Sakya-bhiksu-sthavira-Dharmmamitrasya 



(2) yad = atra punyam tad = bhavatv-acary = opadhyaya-mata-pitr-purvvangamam 

 krtva sakala-satva-raSer = anuttam-jnana-pvaptaya iti || 



It records the erection of an image in the ninth year of the king Narayanapala, 

 in the month of Vaisakha, by a Buddhist Elder, named Dharmmamitra, an inhabi- 

 tant of the Andhra country. 



The Bhagalpur grant of Narayanapaladeva was issued when the king was stay- 

 ing at Mudgagiri and records the grant of the village of Makutika to the temple of 

 Siva at Kalasapota, which was situated in the Kaksa visaya, of Tlrabhukti, thus 

 proving that up to that time Tirabhukti or modern Tirhut was under the Pala kings. 

 The Dfitaka of this grant was the Bhatta Punyakirtti, otherwise named Guravamisra, 

 who erected the Garada-stambha at Badal. The other inscription is not dated. It 

 was incised to record the erection of a stone monolith surmounted by an image of 

 Garuda by the Bhatta Guravamisra, the minister of the king. According to this in- 

 scription Guravamisra was the minister of Narayanapala, his father Kedaramisra 

 that of Surapala, and Devapala, his grandfather Somesvara, a general, and his great- 

 grandfather Darbhapani, the minister of Devapala, while his great-great-grandfather 

 Garga was the minister of Dharmmapala. The synchronism is shown below. 



Pala Emperors. Ministers 



I Gopala I, 



II Dharmmapala, Vakpala, Gargga, 



Darbhapani, 



III Devapala. Jayapala, 



Somesvara , 



Surapala I Kedaramisra, 



IV or Vigrahapala I, 



V Narayanapala. Guravamisra. 



Nothing is known about Narayanapala's son Rajyapala, who succeeded him, 

 save that he married the Rastrakuta princess Bhagyadevi, the daughter of Tuhga, 

 most probably the same as the Tuhga Dharmmavaloka, whose inscription at Maha- 

 bodhi was published by the late Dr. Rajendra Lala Mitra in his Buddha-Gaya. 1 The 

 verse about the marriage of Rajyapala is to be found in the Bangarh grant of Mahi- 

 pala I, Amgachi grant of Vigrahapala III and the Manahali grant of Madanapala. 



1 Buddha-Gaya, p. 195, pi. XI,. 



