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[No. 4, 
Rajendralala Mitra —On the Tala 
of the Jogi-ghopa carvings. A mile to the south-west, at Amari, are more 
brick remains which Dr. Buchanan heard called the palace of Mahi-pala. 
Across the hit, two miles north-east, at Chondira, are remains, which he 
was told were those of Chandra-pala’s palace ; there are more bricks at 
Katak and Dhoral, and indeed in all the country round are innumerable 
brick ruins. Seven miles north of the great stupa is the celebrated Budal 
pillar, set up by a minister of Narayana-pala, and bearing an inscription, 
in which Deva-pala and Sura-pala are mentioned as having preceded 
Narayana-pala. A dozen miles north of that again was found the Am- 
gachi plate, containing a grant of Vigraha-pala, and enumerating his 
ancestors, Sura-pala his father, Mahi-pala, Dharma-pala, and others.” # 
Several local names, such as Mahiganj, Maliinagar, Mahipur, Mahi-santosh, 
Nayanagar, &c , also bear remains of the names of former Pala kings. 
The evidence thus is on the whole sufficient to show that the Palas 
exercised sovereignty on the west of the Bhagiratlii, certainly as far as 
the boundary of Behar and probably further, taking the whole of the ancient 
kingdom of Magadha. On the north it included Tirhut, Malda, Rajshahi, 
Dinajpur, Rangpur and Bagura, which constituted the ancient kingdom of 
Paundravardhana. The bulk of the delta seems, however, not to have be¬ 
longed to them. To show this and to prove the time when they were 
finally expelled from Bengal proper, we must turn to the history of the Sena 
Raj as of Bengal. 
In my paper on the Sena Raj as,f I have already put together the 
names of all the Sena Rajas that have been brought to light by authentic 
records, and nothing has since been discovered to disturb their genealogical 
table as published by me. Mr. Westmacott, in 1875, J published some remarks 
on my paper, but his criticisms did not apply to the order of succession. 
But several important facts have since been brought prominently to notice, 
and they necessitate slight alterations in the dates assigned by me to the 
several princes of that dynasty. 
The most important of these facts is the era of Lakshmana Sena. 
The credit of first discovering it is due to Colebrooke. In the Preface to 
his translation of the ‘ Digest of Hindu Laws,’ he remarked: “ Halayudlia, 
the spiritual adviser of Lakshmana Sena, (a renowned monarch who gave 
his name to an era of which six hundred and ninety-two years are expired), 
is the author of Nyaya-sarvasva, &c.” But no notice was afterwards taken 
of this era, and Prinsep in his ‘ Useful Tables’ entirely passed it over. Sub¬ 
sequently an opportunity offered him when he noticed an inscription from 
Buddha Gaya,§ in which the era of Lakshmana is distinctly mentioned, 
* Loc. cit. f Ante, Yol. XXXIV. 4 ; Ante , XLIY, pp. If. § Ante, Y, p. 659. 
