so 
F. Kielliorn— Copper-plate Inscription of Mahipala. [No. 2, 
I am aware that, as regards Devapala, this statement of the relation¬ 
ship of the earlier Pala princes does not agree with the account of the 
Mungir copper-plate 7 which makes that prince (not the nephew, but) 
the son of Dharmapala and his queen, a Rashtrakuta princess ; but I see 
no way of reconciling the difference. Considering that the Mungir 
grant was issued by Devapala himself, it is more than probable that 
what is stated in it is correct, and that the other inscriptions in this 
particular are wrong. 
Having brought down the genealogy to Narayanapala, our inscrip¬ 
tion proceeds as follows :— 
( Verse 7.) ‘ His (i. e ., Narayana’s) son was the protector of the 
middle world, the illustrious Rajyapala, whose fame is proclaimed by 
water-tanks as deep as the sea and by temples the walls of which equal 
the noblest mountains. 
(8.) As the store of light proceeds from the eastern mountain, so 
sprang from that king of the east a son, born from his fortunate queen, 8 
a daughter of the high ( tuiiga ) high-crested ( uttuhga-mauli ) 9 moon of 
the Rashtrakuta family,—the illustrious Gfopaladeva, who long was the 
sole lord of the earth, gaily clad by the four oceans which are lustrous 
with many precious stones. 
(9.) Him, richly endowed with the qualities of a king, the fortune 
of regal power,—energy, good counsel and majesty,—worshipped as her 
lord, dear and attached to him, and serving the earth like a fellow wife. 
(10.) From him sprang in the course of time, augmenting the in¬ 
numerable blessings of his parent, Vigrahapaladeva, who, dear to all, 
stainless and versed in every art, when he arose, alleviated like the 
moon 10 the distress of the world. 
(11.) When the huge elephants of his army had drunk pure 
water in the water-abounding: eastern land, and had roamed about at 
will in the sandal forests at the foot of the Malaya range, they like 
clouds took possession of the ridges of the snowy mountain, cooling the 
trees with showers of drizzling rain. 11 
7 See the lithograph in the Asiatic Researches, vol. I, p. 123, plate I, line 14. 
8 Or Bhagyadevi may be the proper name of the queen. 
9 Undoubtedly the writer, by the words tungasyottungamauleh, means to sug¬ 
gest the name of the Rashtrakuta king spoken of ; or he may even have used Tunga 
as a proper name, for Jagattunga. I understand the prince referred to to be the 
Rashtrakuta Jagattunga II., who must have ruled in the beginning of the 10th cen¬ 
tury A. D.—See Fleet’s Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, p. 36 ; and Bhandarkar’s 
Early History of the Bekhan, p. 53. 
U The epithets of the king may, of course, in different senses be applied also to 
the moon. 
11 Viz., the water discharged from the elephant’s trunks. 
