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³ *JASB*, 1921, Vol. XVII (N.S.), p. 4. Dr. R. C. Majumdar argues that since the sumtotal of the known reign-periods of the successors of Mahīpāla I, when added to 1026 takes us to the second quarter of the 12th century A. D. "it may be held that Mahīpāla died *c.* 1026 A.D., and the same conclusion must be upheld even if it is proved that Madanapāla continued to rule for some time after the conquest of Varendra by Vijayasena" (*c.* 1120 A.D. ?). In *Bāṅgālār Itihās*, 2nd Ed., Vol. I, pp. 257-258, the author argues that since the Sarnath epigraph does not use either *Pravardhamāna-vijaya-rājya* or *Kalyāṇa-vijaya-rājya* and the composer of the inscription has used *akārayat*, it should be assumed that at the time of the inscription Mahīpāla was dead. But he had the good sense to point out that his arguments could not be used with any force, since the inscription in question is composed in verse and not in prose. See also *supra*, p. 281 and fn. 1.