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It is less easy to come to a definite conclusion regarding the date 
of his accession. According to the Vamsdvali of Prasiddha Narayana, 
this took place in 1534; Gunabhiram following Bisvesvar places it 
in 1528 and Babu Ram Chandra Ghosh in 1555 A. D. # The last men- 
tioned date may be at once rejected, on the testimony of a silver coin 
of this king which was found some years ago in the Garo Hills and 
published in the J. A. S. B. for 1875, page 306. f This coin is dated 
1477 S'ak (1555 A. D.), or the very year fixed for Nara Narayana’s ac- 
cession by Babu Ram Chandra, and as he had to fight with his brother 
Nara Simha before obtaining the throne, it is extremely unlikely that 
he began to issue coins in the very first year of his I’eign. It is much 
more likely that the time when this mouey was coined, formed the se- 
cond period in his reign, namely, the interval of peace which followed 
his earlier expeditions and preceded the second war against the ruler 
of Gaur. 
Perhaps the best way of arriving at the probable date of his suc- 
cession will be to calculate it from several independent data, and then 
to strike an average. The Akbarndmah says that his son was born 
when he was fifty years of age. As the latter ascended the throne on 
his father’s death without, it would appear, the help of guardians, he 
cannot at that time have been less than 15 years of age. On this cal- 
culation Nara Narayana must have been born in 1519 A. D., and as he 
was still a student when his father died, he cannot at that time have 
been much more than 15 years of age. This would bring his accession 
to 1534 A. D., which is the very date mentioned in Prasiddha Narayana’s 
Vamsdvali. 
Another way of arriving at the probable date of his succession is 
by calculating what time would be required for the different events 
referred to in the history of his reign, which occurred prior to the erec- 
tion of Kamaldiya temple, the date of which (1565 A. D.) is known 
to us by the inscription in the temple itself and by the concurrent tes- 
timony of Prasiddha Narayana’s Vamsdvali, and the manuscript edition 
ruler between Nara Narayana and Laksbmf, and all alike agree in saying that the 
latter was the son of the former. Besides Bloohmann says that the brother of Bal 
Gosain was S'ukl Gosain, who can be none other than S'ukladhvaja. In his 
notice of the Akbarndmah (J. A. S. B. 1872, page 52) he quotes a passage which says 
that Bal Gosain lived the life of an ascetic and did not marry until he was 50 years 
old, when he took a wife by whom he had a son named Lakshmi Narayana. Lastly, 
on page 100 of the number of the Journal just quoted, Blochmann himself, in a 
footnote, explains that Nara Narayana is called Bal Gosain in the Akbarndmah. 
* Statistical Account of Koch Bihar, page 407. 
+ A similar coin of Nara Narayana bearing the same date had been previously 
published in J. A. S. B. 1856, page 547, by Rajendralala Mitra. 
