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[No. 4, 
Rajendralala Mitra —On the Tala 
His conquests, according to the chronicler, extended from the source of 
the Ganges to Adam’s bridge, including the Vindhya and Kamboja coun¬ 
tries ; but probably it did not in reality stretch much beyond the Vindhy- 
an range. The conquest of Kamboja evidently had no firmer basis than 
the imagination of the poet. When encamped at Mudgagiri, modern Mun- 
gher, this prince, on the 21st day of Margasirsa, (November—December,) 
in the 33rd year of his reign, bestowed the town of Misika in Krimila, a 
department of STinagara, modern Patna, to one Bodha Bhikshurata Misra. 
The imprecations against the resumption of the grant are given in the 
usual Puranic style. 
Soon after, a second monument of that dynasty was found at Budal 
in Dinajpur, and also translated by Sir Charles Wilkins. It was a record 
inscribed on a stone pillar, by order of a minister of one of the Pala Rajas. 
As in the last-case so in this the translation was published in the ‘ Research¬ 
es,’ (Yol. I, pp. 131 et seq .,) without any text. But a plate was added, 
giving a front and a side view of the pillar and a specimen of the character 
of the inscription. Sir William Jones was not satisfied with either of the 
translations, and appended to them some explanatory notes. A revised 
transcript and translation of the last, however, has since been published by 
Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha, # and all doubts regarding the original have 
now been removed. This inscription was put up by a minister of Narayana- 
pala who recorded the merits of his ancestors, who seem to have been all 
officers of the Pala family Trusting to the wisdom of one of them, the 
chronicler states, “ The king of Gauda for a long time enjoyed the country 
of the eradicated race of Utkala (Orissa), of the Hunnas of humbled pride, 
of the kings of Dravida and Gurjara, whose glory was reduced, and the 
universal sea-girt throne.” Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha has thus sum¬ 
marised the historical results of this record. 
I. Sandilya. 
II. Viradeva. 
III. Panchala. 
IV. Garga, married Ichchha. 
Y. Sri Darbhapani, minister of Deva-pala, married Sarkara. 
YI. Somes vara Misra, married Tarala. 
VII. Kedarnatha Misra, married Badhva of Devagrama, Sura-pala, 
contemporary. 
VIII. Gurava Misra, minister of Narayana-pala. 
The third record was found at Sarnath, near Banaras. 'It was inscribed 
on a stone, and a facsimile transcript and a translation of it were publish¬ 
ed in the fifth volume of the ‘ Asiatic Researches ’ It contained the 
* Ante XLIII, pt. I. pp. 356f. 
