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S. C. Das —Antiquity of Chittagong . 
27 
times Raja Babla Sundara sent a number of Pandits to the Siddlia f anti 
Gupta, when be was residing in tlie country of Khagendra in Deklian. 
They returned with a large number of Mantra works to Catigao. 
His four sons, Candra Vahana, Atlta Vahana, Bala Vahana, and 
Sundara liachi, patronized Buddhism. The first reigned in Rakhan 
(Arakan), the second ruled in the land of the Cakmas (Chittagong Hill 
Tracts), the third became the king of Munad (Burmah), and the fourth 
ruled over Namgata (the Hill Tracts of Assam, Kachar and Tripura). 
Babla Sundara, it seems, was the king of Tripura and Catigrama 
(Chittagong). 13 
With respect to the ‘Pandit’s cap’ (Panzva-rtse rih), mentioned 
above (page 25), the following information is available. 
Dr. Waddell in his work on “The Buddhism of Tibet ” has given 
a very interesting description of the Lamaist hats and cawls. “ The 
majority of the hats, he writes, are of an Indian type, a few only being 
Chinese or Mongolian. The two most typical hats are believed by the 
Lamas to have been brought from India by the Buddhist Saint Padma 
Sambhana, the founder of Lamaism, and his coadjutor, panti Raksita, in 
the eighth century. And both of these hats are essentially of an Indian 
pattern. The red hat, of the great Pandits Panchen zva dinar is alleged 
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