The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.23

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Rāmapāla is described by Tāranāth as possessing a vigorous understanding and widely extended power. After defeating the Kaivarta usurper, he conquered Mithilā or North Bihār, the modern Champāran and Darbhanga Districts, and it is clear that his dominions also included Kāmarūpa or Assam, because his son Kumārapāla conferred the government of that country, with kingly powers, upon a valiant minister named Vaidyadeva. Buddhism, although then declining in Hindustan, flourished in the Pāla dominions during the reign of Rāmapāla, the monasteries of Magadha being crowded with thousands of residents. Tāranāth and certain Bengal authors treat Rāmapāla as the last of his dynasty, or at any rate, the last who exercised considerable power, but the inscriptions prove that he was followed by five kings of his family.²