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Colophon of the Maitreya Vyakarana—year 17 of Gopala II.

મીરાનાના ટીબીસી

છે કે વિશ્વમ ખતરાનું નાટક

Jaynagar image inscription—the year 35 of Palapala.

Bargaon Pillar inscription ; year 24 of Rajyapala.

કવવા

पूर्व नयाई

III.-Pala Chronology.

By-Prof. R. D. Banerji, Benares.

Seventeen years have elapsed since the publication of my monograph on the Pālas of Bengal and during this period, though much new material has not been discovered, numerous theories have been propounded by different scholars about Pāla chronology. The most prolific writers on this subject are Professor R. C. Majumdar and Mr. Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya. Each of them has contributed three articles on this subject during the past decade; Professor Majumdar has written :

(1) "The Colophons of four ancient Sanskrit Manuscripts"
(2) "The Chronology of the Pāla kings" and
(3) "The Chronology of the Sena kings ".

Mr. Dinesh

three articles :

Chandra Bhattacharya has also contributed

(1) A Chronology of the Pala Dynasty of Bengal "4,
(2), "Date of Lakṣmaṇasena and his predecessors," and
(3)*" Dates of early historical records of Bengal " •.

A number of votive inscriptions discovered during the last seventeen years; has made it necessary to reconsider the problem of Pala¡ Chronology. The chronology of the Senas is but an unimportant part of the chronology of the kings of Bengal as it covers less than a century while the Pālas ruled almost uninterruptedly for!four centuries and a half, beginning in the eighth and ending in the last decade of the twelfth. The following inscriptions and manuscript records have to be taken into consideration for the reconstruction of Pála chronology :(1) The Nālandā plate of Devapāla—the year 39, ".

'J. & P. A. S. B., Vol. XVI, 1920, pp. 301—3.

Ibid. Vol. XVII, 1921, pp. 1-6.

Ibid. pp. 7-16.

Ind. Ant. Vol, XLIX, 1920, pp. 189-193.

Ibid. Vol. LI, 1922, pp. 145-148, 153-158.

Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. III, 1927, pp.571-591.
Epi. Ind., Vol. XVIII. pp. 310-87.

2 Res. J.