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S. C. Das— Antiquity of Chittagong . 
[No, 1, 
A Note on the Antiquity of Chittagong , compiled from the Tibetan works 
Pagsam Jon-Zan of Sump a Khan-po and Kahbab Dun-dan of Lama 
Tara Natha.—By Sakat Chandra Das, C.I.E., Bai Bahadur. 
[Read February, 1897.] 
About the close of the 6th century A.D. when JM Harsa reigned in 
Ka^mir, 1 in the north, the brother of king Prabhasa, named f akyabala, 
brought under his sway the country between Haridvara and Kazimir. 
He accepted as his spiritual teacher Acarya Vasumitra, the author of 
the commentary of the Mabak59a and also of the works on the religious 
theories of the eighteen sects of the early Buddhists. In the south Deva 
£rama, a pupil of Dharma Raksita, who had written the Mula Prajna 
Tika, gained the victory in a disputation with some Tlrthika (Brahmana) 
Pandits, and succeeded in converting king Salavahana to Buddhism. 
Afterwards in the reign of the fifth Simha, the Tlrthika teacher called 
Dattatri appeared. 2 Shortly afterwards the Brahmana Pandits, called 
Kumara-lila and Kanada, defeated the pupils of the Buddhist sage 
Diq-naga and others. When pamkar-acarya, who, it is said, could see 
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Then the Pala dynasty of the solar race ( Suryavamga ) consisting of fourteen 
kings came in succession. At that time in Katjmir there ruled Qrl Harsa Deva. 
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