1897.] Dr. Hoernle —Gauhati Copper-plate Grant of Indrapala. 119 
8, Harjara, of a new litie. 
9, Vanamala, son of No. 8. 
10, Jayamala, son of No. 9. 
11, Virabahu, son of No. 10. 
12, Balavarman, son of No. 11. 
With No. 8, Harjara, a new dynasty commences : but here the 
Nowgong and Tejpur grants differ, the latter commencing this new 
dynasty with Harjara’s father, Pralambha, whom the Nowgong grant 
ignores. Moreover the Tejpur grant seems distinctly to make Pralambha 
to belong to the (old, apparently restored) line of Bhagadatta. There 
is, however, in the genealogical wording of both grants sufficient 
looseness (probably intentional) to suggest the descensional connection 
of both the Salastambha and Harjara (or Pralambha) lines with 
Bhagadatta. 
In another point also these two grants differ. The Tejpur grant 
makes Bhagadatta to succeed his father Naraka, and omits all mention 
as to the further fortunes of his brother Vajradatta. On the other 
hand, the Nowgong grant makes Vajradatta to succeed his father 
Bhagadatta. 
This matter of the relation of the kings and dynasties to one another 
is further complicated through the statements in the Ratnapala grant. 
I have not as yet been able to thoroughly examine that grant, but so 
much seems to be clear from it, that Vajradatta was a brother of 
Bhagadatta (as against the Gauhati and Nowgong grants), and that 
Vajradatta succeeded his brother Bhagadatta (as against the Tejpur 
grant, which knows nothing about Vajradatta’s succession, and against 
the Gauhati and Nowgong grants, which make him succeed his father 
Bhagadatta). Further the Ratnapala grant fills up the undefined 
interval, No. 5 of the Gauhati grant, by stating that after Vajradatta 
a chief ( adhipati ) of the Mlecchas took possession of the kingdom, 
and a line of twenty kings now followed, beginning with (Salastambha. 
The twenty-first of this line was Tyaga-sidha, who had no sons, and 
he was succeeded by Brahmapala, the father of Ratnapala. From this 
account (if I have gathered it correctly) it would appear that the 
Pala dynasty of Asam followed the kings Nos. 5-12 of the Nowgong 
grant. The latter names eight kings, from (Salastambha down to Bala¬ 
varman. There may have been descendants of the Harjara line after 
Balavarman, but, in any case, the grant allows a number of unnamed 
kings under No. 7. There is no difficulty, therefore, in accounting for the 
21 kings, who are said, by the Ratnapala grant, to have preceded Brah¬ 
mapala. On palceograpbic grounds, too, there is a probability of the 
(Salastambha and Harjara lines having preceded the Pala dynasty. 
