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E. A. Gait — The Koch Kings of Kamarupa. [No. 4, 
Buranji gives a list of 17 Pala princes who reigned in Kamarupa, via : 
Jayanta Pala, Chakra Pala, Bimini Pala, Prema Pala, Pakslia Pala, 
Daks ha Pala, Chandra Pala, Narayana Pala, Madhu Pala, Indra Pala, 
Simha Pala, Krishna Pala, Su Pala, Gandha Pala, Madhava Pala, 
S'yania Pala, and Lakshmi Pala. He adds that these princes were 
Buddhists, and that Lakshmi Pala was followed by a king of the name 
of Subahu who died childless and was succeeded by his Mantri Sumafi. # 
There is a tradition amongst a colony of Brahmans ( called Basat- 
taria, i e. 72) resident at Sualkuclii in Kamarupa, that they settled there 
in the reign of one Dharma Pala, and a copperplate in their possession 
records a grant of land made fo them by that prince. 
Another plate found recently at Benares and deciphered by Pro- 
fessor Yenis, records the grant of two villages Bada and Mundara in 
the Vishnya of Bada in the Bhukti of Pragjyotisha in the Mandala 
of Kamarupa to a Brahman named S'ridhara. The date of the grant 
has not been deciphered, but Professor Yenis is of opinion that it was 
about 1142 A. D. The name of the prince making the grant is Kumara 
Pala, son of Rama Pala and grandson of Yigraha Pala. The inscrip- 
tion says that Rama Pala killed a certain Raja Bhima. Kumara 
Pala is styled Lord of Gauda, and his General is said to have 
slain a rebellious vassal named Timgya, or Tisliya Deva in the East.f 
From the mention of Rama Pala and Yigraha Pala and the title 
Gandesvara assumed by Kumara Pala, this plate would seem to prove 
that the Raja in question belonged to the Pala dynasty of Bengal, and 
the probability that this was so is strengthened by the fact that Deva 
Pala of that dynasty (who according to General Cunningham ruled 
from 850 to 885 A. D. ) is said to have conquered Kamarupa. J 
* Xu an ancient-looking chronicle shown by a Brahman to General Jenkins, 
Lakhi Pala, Subahu and Sumati are mentioned first, then Jitari and his descendants, 
then the Palas, and lastly Mimang and his successors. It is almost impossible to 
give reasons for arranging these dynasties in one order rather than in another, 
particularly as it seems probable that they ruled in different parts of the country. 
It is supposed for instauce that Mimang, and his family reigned at Lohityapura 
in Kamarupa, and that the capital of Jitari was outside modern Assam in the 
Jalpaiguri District. 
The list of Palas in this document differs slightly from that quoted in the text, 
and is given by General Jenkins as follows : — 
Japandu Pdla, Hari Pala, Dhamba Pala, Rama Pala, Pakshya Pala, Chandra 
Pala, Narayana Pala, Mantri Pala, Haina Pala, S'yama Pala, Mactya Pala, Su Pala, 
Gandha Pala, Madhava Piila, and Lakhia Pala. The differences are however in many 
cases clearly due to misreadings of the original. 
t Supplement to Pandit for February, 1 893. 
I Vide copperplate found at Bhagalpur and translated by Rajendralala 
Mittra, J. A. S. B. 1878 page 407. The conquest of Kamarupa is however uncer- 
