1893.] 
E. A, Gait — The Koch Kings of Kamarupa. 
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Mr. Westmacott in his “ Traces of Buddhism in Dinajpur,” was of 
opinion that the Bengal Pala dynasty at one time ruled the country 
north of the Padma, and Mr. Ferguson in his paper on Hiuen Tsiang 
says that “ Pala kings were ruling east of the Karatoya long after 
“ Bengal had been subdued by the Senas, before whom indeed the Palas 
“ probably retreated by' degrees to the north-east.” The only conquest 
in Kamarupa claimed by the Sena line, who succeeded the Pala dynasty 
in Bengal, is that of Yijaya Sena ( 1046-1066 A. D. ) who is said in the 
inscription found at Rajshaliye by Mr. Metcalfe, to have conquered the 
Kings of Gauda, Kamarupa, aud Kalinga.* 
On the other hand it should be mentioned that the name Pala 
alone creates very little, if any, presumption regarding the lineage of 
the rulers bearing it. Many of the Bhuiyas were named Pala, and 
Dalton speaks of an Aryan dynasty of that name which ruled over 
Kundilya or the country around Sadiya, and succumbed to a Chutiya or 
Kachari invasion, probably about the same time that the Koches rose 
to power lower down the Yalley. 
tain. According to Doctor Hultzsch the meaning of the verse is that Deva Pala 
supported the king of Kamarupa against the king of Utkala (Ind. Ant. Vol XT, 
p. 308). Cf. Dr. Kielhorn’s paper on the Dinajpur Inscription ; J. A. S. B., Vol. 
LXI, Part I, pp. 77 and ff. The line of Pala Kings is now established to be as fol- 
lows : — 
(1) Gopala I, 
(2) Dharmapala. Vakpala. 
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(3) Deyapala. Jayapala. 
(4) Vigrahapala I. 
(6) Narayanapala. 
(7) Rajyapala. 
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(8) Gopiila II. 
(9) Vigrahapala II. 
(10) Mahipala. 
(11) Nayapala. 
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(12) Vigrahapala III. 
It is donbtfnl whether Deva Pala was nephew or son of Dharma Pala. 
The dates of Deva Pala, as given, above, are those given by General Cunning- 
ham, (Rep. Arch. Sur. Ind., XI, 181). Dr Rajendralala Mittra gives 895-915 A. D. 
* J. A. S. B. 1878 page 401. It is however not very clear from his inscrip- 
tion whether the conqueror was the Sena prince or the ruler of Gauda. 
