FROM BENARES. 



465 



Khalji, or according to the date of the Sarnath inscription and of the Mussel- 

 man invasion between 1027 and 1204 or less than twelve years to a reign: we 

 cannot therefore place any confidence in this approximation, and must infer 

 the Dhirpal of the Ayin Akberi and Sthirapala of Sarnath lo be differ- 

 ent individuals : we are by no means restricted to the former, for the dynas- 

 ty under discussion as the grant found at Amgachchi in Dinajpur furnishes 

 a still more copious list, (ix. 434.) Agreeably to that authority it seems 

 more safe to conclude with Mr. Colebrooke that the period of the Mongir 

 grant, when the power of this family was at its heighth, must have been the 

 eighth or ninth century at least. To save the trouble of reference it may be 

 as well to insert the names of this dynasty here as they occur in these several 

 inscriptions. 



Amgachchi. 

 Lo'kap&la. 

 Dhermapala. 



Mongir. 

 Gopala. 

 Dhenuapala 

 Devapala. 



Jayapala. 

 Devapala. 



Narayanapala. 





Rajapala. 



pala Deva. 



Vigrahapila Deva. 

 Mahipala D6va. 

 Nayapala. 

 Yigrahap&Ia Deva. 





Budal. 



Rajapala. 

 Surapala. 

 Narajanapala. 



Benares. 



Abulfazl. 

 Bhupala. 

 Dhirpal. 

 Devapala. 

 Bhupatpala. 

 Dhanpatpala. 

 Viganpala. 

 Jay apaia. 

 Rajapala. 

 Bhogap&Ia. 

 Jagadpala. 



Maliipala. 



Sthirapala. 



Vasantp4Ia. 



The conqueror of Kanoj is succeeded by Madanapala, another warlike 

 and victorious sovereign, and his successor bears a similar character ; he is 

 said to have extended his conquests to the east, no doubt beyond the Deva 

 on the banks of which some of the lands granted by Jayachand appear to 

 have been situated. 



The son of Govinda Chandra is Vijaya Chandra, a grant by whom has 

 been noticed by Mr. Colebrooke, (ix. 441,) dated in 1164, as Captain Fell 

 has observed in his notes: the present inscriptions supply all that was left 

 uncertain by the grant alluded to, the original of which having been sent to 



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