Tribes in Ancient India c50.358

c50.358

A.D.), made no attempt to restore the old Magadhan Imperial capital, Pāṭaliputra.¹ About 600 A.D. Śaśāṅka Narendragupta, king of Gauḍa and Karṇasuvarṇa, destroyed the ‘Buddha’s footprints’ at Pāṭaliputra, and smashed many Buddhist temples and monasteries.² Dharmapāla, the most powerful of the Pāla kings of Bengal and Bihar, took some steps to renew the glory of Pāṭaliputra, but the interests of the Pāla monarchs seem to have been centred in Bengal rather than in Magadha.³