1878.] 
and the Sena Rajas of Bengal. 
I. Go-pala 
385 
II. Dharma-pala-Yak-pala 
III. Deva-pala-Jaya-pala 
i 
IY. Vigraha-pala 
Y. Narayana-pala. 
The genealogy here given is apparently not in accord with what has 
been hitherto known to be the family tree of the Palas, and, in order to 
elucidate the history of the Palas, it is necessary to advert to certain records, 
already published, relating to some of the sovereigns of - the family. 
General Cunningham, in his Archaeological Survey .Reports, Yol. Ill, has 
already noticed them at length ; but some of the facts contained in them 
require to be further discussed. 
The first inscription brought to the notice of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal was a copper-plate grant of one of the Pala Rajas of Bengal. It 
had been discovered among some ruins at Mungher, and translated by Sir 
Charles Wilkins, in 1781, three years before the foundation of the Society. 
The translation was published in the first volume of the ‘ Asiatic Researches,’ 
(pp. 122, et seq.,) but without any facsimile or transcript of the original. 
The original is lost, and so many doubtful points in it cannot now be 
solved. It opens with the name of Go-pala, a pious king, who acted accord¬ 
ing to what is written in the S'astra, and obliged the different sects to con¬ 
form to their proper tenets. His religion is not mentioned ; but he was 
evidently a Buddhist, for the document begins with a comparison between 
him and Sugata Buddha, the allusion to the S'astra being intended either 
to imply his tolerant character, or to the scriptures of the Buddhists. His 
son, Dharma-pala, seems to have died while engaged in a marauding excur¬ 
sion towards the Himalaya. The circumstance is explained by his pane¬ 
gyrist in the following manner : “ He went to extirpate the wicked and 
plant the good, and happily his salvation was effected at the same time, 
for his servants visited Kedar, and drank milk according to the law, and 
they offered up their vows where the Ganges joins the ocean, and at Gokar- 
na and other places.” It is scarcely likely that the king had ever exercised 
any power in those places. His accomplished wife, Kanna Devi, bore him 
a son, Prince Deva-pala, who succeeded his father in the kingdom “ even 
as Bodhisattva succeeded Sugata.” His name occurs as “ the lord of the 
land” in a Buddhist inscription found in a mound near Pesserawa in Behar. # 
* Journal, As. Soc. XVII, p. 493. 
