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² The chief authority for the period is R. D. Banerji's elaborate article, 'The Pālas of Bengal', in *Mem. A. S. B.*, vol. v, pp. 43–113, 1915, with a separate fasciculus of plates. See also M. Haraprasad Sastri's 'Literary History of the Pāla Period' in *J. B. & O. Res. Soc.*, vol. v, part ii, pp. 171 ff.; and Benoy Kumar Sarkar, *The Folk-element in Hindu Culture* (Longmans, 1917). The latter lays stress on the power and importance of the Pālas and Cholas, long after Harsha's death, and suggests that India became really the school of Asia by supplying faith, literature, arts, and material necessities to Nepāl, Tibet, China, Japan, Java, Burma, and other lands beyond the seas.