THE PAL AS OF BENGAL. 77 



Karnnadeva is said to have subdued or held in check the Pandyas, Muralas, 

 Kurigas, Vangas, Kalihgas, Kiras and Hunas. In the Karanbel inscription of 

 Jayasimhadeva it is stated that Karnna was waited upon by the Coda, Kuhga, Huna, 

 Gauda, Gurjara and Kir a princes: — 



Nlcaih sancaia Coda-Kunga kim^idam phalgu tvaya valgyate Hun = aivam ranitum 



na yuktam=iha te tvam Gauda garvvan = tyaja , 

 m=aivam Gurjjara garjja Kir a nibhrto varttasva seva-gatan=ittham yasya mitho- 



virodki-nrpatln dvastho vininye janah. — L. n — -12.' 



According to the Cedl inscriptions Karnna subdued or defeated the king of 

 Gauda, whoever he might be. Mr. Monmohan Cakravartti first of all pointed out 

 mentions of a war between Nayapala and the king of Karnya. The term "king of 

 Karnya" seems to be a translation of the Sanskrit word "Karnaraja," " the king 

 Karna." The form Karnya seems to be a mistake. 4 In his article on the 

 Krsnadvarika temple inscription of Nayapala Mr. Cakravartti has pointed out 

 that Atlsa mediated between Nayapala and the king of Karnya about the year 

 1035 A - D - So the Cedi Emperor Karnadeva, who is in reality the same person as the 

 king of Karnya of Tibetan literature, must have invaded Magadha some time before 

 1035 a.d.* The incidents of the campaign are mentioned in Rai Sarat Candra Das 

 Bahadur's article on the Life of Atlsa : — 



(( During Atlsa 's residence at Vajrasena a dispute hav- 

 ^adts V Ma t g h a e dha d1 "' in § risen between the two, Nayapala, king of Magadha, and 



the Tirthika, king of Karnya of the West, the latter made 

 war upon Magadha. Failing to capture the city, his troops sacked some of the sacred 



Buddhist institutions and killed altogether five (men) Afterwards when 



victory turned towards (Nayapala) and the troops of Karnya were being slaughtered 

 by the armies of Magadha, he took the king of Karnya and his men under his protec- 

 tion and sent them away Atlsa caused a treaty to be concluded between 



the two kings. With the exception of the articles of food that were destroyed at 

 the time of war, all other things which had fallen in the hands of the parties were 

 either restored or compensated for ' ' .* 



Nayapala must have reigned at least fifteen years as two of his inscriptions were 

 incised in that year. The first is the Krsna-dvarika temple inscription, referred to 



above, which records the erection of a temple of Visnu by a 



Length of reign Inscrip- { { Brahmana named Visvaditya, the son of Sudraka 

 tions and MS. Records. ■ J ' 



and the grandson of Paritosa, in the fifteenth year of king 



Nayapaladeva. The verses were composed by a veterinary named Sahadeva and the 



engraving was done by the artisan Sattasoma, son of Adhipasoma. The second 



inscription was discovered by Mr. Paramesvar Dayal, then Court of Wards Head 



Clerk in Gay a, in 1884, inside the small temple of Narasirhha in the Visnupada 



compound. It was pointed out by him to Mr. Cakravartti, 6 and to the late Dr. 



l Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII, p. 217. « Jl. Bud. Text Soc, Vol. I. p. 9 



i J.A.S.B., 19%, pt. I, p. 192. * Jl. Bud. Text Soc, Vol. I, p. 9, note. 



6 J.A.S.B , 1900, pt. I, p. 191, note 1. 



