THE PALAS OF BENGAL. 79 



The main object of the inscription seems to be the recording of the ancestry and 

 the name of the donor as well as the date of the building of the Temple of Gadadhara 

 and several other minor temples of Visnu. As the inscription itself was found in the 

 temple of Narasirhha which is only few paces behind that of Gadadhara at Gaya it 

 seems certain that the ancient materials which have been profusely used in the 

 modern temple of Gadadhara are the remains of the temple built by Visvarupa in 

 the fifteenth year of the reign of Nayapaladeva. 



The Krsna-Dvarika temple inscription referred to above also records the erec- 

 tion of temple of Visnu in the fifteenth year of Nayapala : — 



Saptamvu-rds'i-visarat (ac-ch) Slatha mekhalayd asya bhuvah kati na bhumi-bhujo- 

 vabhuvuh, 



Siddhim na kasyacid = agdd=yad=analpa-kalpais=ten=dtra Kirttanani = akdri 

 Jandrdanasya, — verse iy. [ 



The modern temple of Krsna-dvarika is built almost entirely of ancient 

 materials and it is quite possible that these materials are the only remnants of Vis- 

 vaditya or Visvarupa' s temple. The only other existing record of Nayapala is in the 

 colophon of a manuscript of Pahca-raksa in the collection of the Cambridge 

 University : — 



Deyadharmosyani = pravara-mahdydna-ydyinydh Paramopdsikd-Rajnl-Uddakdyd 

 yad = atra puny an ~ tad — bhavatv = deary = opddhydya-matd-pitr (purvangama) 

 n-krtvd sakaia-satva-rd$er-anuttara-jndn = dvdptaya iti || Paramasaugata-Mahd- 

 rajddhirdja-Parames'vara Srl-man = Nayapdladeva-pravarddhamdna-vijayardjye 

 samvat 14 Caitra dine 27 likhit-eyam bhattdrikd iti! 1 



Nothing else is known about Nayapala and his relations. He was succeeded by 

 his son Vigrahapala III. Nayapala's reign most probably did not extend beyond 

 the date of the Krsna-dvarika and Gadadhara temple inscriptions and seems to have 

 come to an end some time between 1045 and 1050 a.d. It is said in a commentary 

 on Cakradatta that Cakrapani Datta was the kitchen superintendent of king Naya- 

 pala. 3 



At the beginning of his reign Vigrahapala came into conflict with his father's anta- 

 gonist, the Cedi Emperor Karna. Karna's power at that time was at its lowest ebb. 



He was being constantly defeated by the neighbouring 

 Vigrahapala III : his war. . . 



princes. He had a very long reign, his own with that of his 



son having covered a century. In the height of his power he had overrun the whole 



of Northern India but in his old age he suffered many reverses. He was defeated by 



the Candella Kirttivarman/ by Udayaditya of Malava, 6 by Bhimadeva I of Anahil- 



vad, who is eulogised by the grammarian Hema-candra for having defeated Karna in 



battle/ and by the Western Calukya Somesvara I, which is recorded by the poet 



1 J A.S.B., 1900, pt. I, p. 184. i Bendall's Cat. Skt. MSS. in the Univy. Liby., Cambridge , p. 175. No. 1688. 



3 Cakrapani, Ed by Sivadasa Sena, Calcutta, b. s. 1302, p. 407. 



* Epi. Ind., Vol. I, pp. 220, 326, 130, 132. 



5 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 192. 6 Biihler— fiber das Lebeu des Jaina Monchs Hema— Chandra, p. 69. 



