Indian Epigraphy c11.t6.42

c11.t6.42

A very long list of officials and non-officials addressed by the donor in connection with a grant is found in the early medieval charters of some parts of Northern and Eastern India such as those issued by the Pāla and Sena kings of Bengal and Bihar. Thus the Anulia plate⁵ of Lakṣmaṇasena has twenty-five entries in the list while the Bangadh plate⁶ of Mahīpāla I has no less than fortyfour including those of peoples like Gauḍa, Mālava, Khasa, Hūṇa, etc., who were probably mercenaries in the Pāla army, not to mention certain other classes including the Brāhmaṇas, Medas, Andhras and Caṇḍālas.⁷