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and the Sena Rajas of Bengal. 
hesitation, therefore, in adopting it, particularly as the character of the 
writing, the Kutila, which had a range of between four or five centuries 
from the 8th to the 12th, fully justified my course. The symbolical mean¬ 
ings of the first and the last words are well known and undoubted. The 
second, however, was not in common use, at least I had never found it used 
in that sense. Its first letter ra was unmistakable, but the second could be 
a compound of d and ya, which would produce adya or one, the r being taken 
for the visarga after agni. This would lead to the same result. Inasmuch 
however as the first word cannot take the nominative case-mark in the 
midst of a compound term, I preferred the reading adopted. Soon after 
communicating my translation to Mr. Broadley I paid a visit to Behar, and, 
on examining the stone, I found the second letter to be clearly a dh, and 
the word rddha being equivalent to the Hindu month Vaisakha(April—May), 
I came to the conclusion that the first two words meant the 3rd of Vaisakha, 
the subsequent word dvara tate meaning “spread on the door”, i. e ., the gift 
whatever it was given at the gate. # This explanation left the figures of the 
Sam vat unprovided, but the blank space after the word Samvat I supposed was 
the locale of the figures or symbolical words which were never engraved. Pro¬ 
fessor Eama Krishna Gopal Bhandarkar of Bombay, to whom a facsimile 
had been communicated by Mr. Broadley, took the two upright strokes after 
the word Samvat to be equal to ll.f I could not, however, subscribe to 
this opinion. In the Kutila character the figure for 1 is not an upright 
stroke, and there was no reason to suppose that a departure had been made 
in this case. The blank spaces after the word at the end of the first line and 
at the beginning of the second line would under the supposition also be 
unaccountable. In Sanskrit inscriptions and MSS. it is not usual to break 
the matter into paragraphs, and the blank spaces cannot but imply a 
deliberate act intended for something to be put in afterwards, the matter 
not being ready at hand at the time of the incision. 
Mr. Broadley found an inscription of Go-pala at the same place, two of 
Madana-pala and Vigraha-pala respectively at Behar ; three of Mahi-pala, 
and one each of Itama-pala and Deva-pala at Ghosrawan and Titrawan. 
The Ghosrawan inscription was first noticed by Major Kittoe. J 
With a view to complete the summary of the references to the history 
of the Pala Kings, it is necessary further to refer to the list of the Palas 
given in the Ain-i-Akbari (vol. I, p. 413) and in Taranath’s work. They 
have been entirely superseded by the inscriptions, but they afford curious 
illustrations of the changes which had been effected by the traditions 
current in the time of Abul Fazl. Abul Fazl’s list has been reproduced in 
Pere Tieffenthaler’s work. 
The Genealogical lists derived from these several sources may be thus 
tabulated : 
* Ante, XLI, pt. I., p. 310. 
f Loc. cit. 
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