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¹ Minhaj, p. 148. Cf. Banerji: Banglar Itihasa, I, p. 252-53, who thinks it was Govindapala, then ruling in the districts round Uddandapur, Nalanda and Vikramsila, who was killed on this occasion by Bakhtiyar's forces. Cf. with this view JASB, 1921, p. 14, and Ray: Dynastic History I, p. 369. On the point of the Sramanas offering resistance see Taranath, quoted in Samaddar, op cit. p. 26, and 148.