The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.11

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Devapāla, the third sovereign of the dynasty, is regarded by the oldest writers on Brahman genealogy in Bengal as having been the most powerful of the Pālas.⁴ His general, Lāusena or Lavasena, is said to have conquered Assam and Kalinga. A grant dated in the thirty-third year of his reign was issued from the court at Mudgagiri, or Monghyr.⁵ Like all the other kings of his house, he was zealous in the cause of Buddhism, and is reputed to have waged war with the unbelievers, destroying forty of their strongholds. He is said to have reigned for forty-eight years.⁶