History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c16.s1.t6.11

c16.s1.t6.11

This view also agrees with what we know of the Pāla kingdom about this time. Thus the Viṣṇupāda (Gaya) stone inscription of the 7th year, the Bihar (now Indian Museum) stone record of the 9th, and the Bhagalpur plate of the 17th year of Nārāyaṇapāla—issued from Mudgagiri and granting the village of Mukuṭikā in the Kakṣaviṣaya in Tirabhukti (modern Tirhut)—prove that in the earlier half of his reign Magadha continued to remain under the Pālas, but after this until the close of Nārāyaṇapāla’s long rule of about 54 years no Pāla inscriptions have been discovered in this region. Hence the Pratihāras must have occupied Magadha and