Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.156

c6.156

Devapāla is called *Gauḍeśvara* in Gurava Misra’s inscription on the Garuda-pillar at Bādal in the Dinajpur district in nothern Bengal,[3] and the Gauḍas whom Kṛṣṇa II could have taught a lesson were the people under this relative of his. In the Baroda Grant of 812 A.D.—no doubt he refers to the Baroda copper-plates, dated 734 Śaka-saṃvat of Rāṣṭrakūṭa Karka II—*Gauḍendra* and *Vaṅgapati* are separately mentioned,[4] because north western and eastern Bengal formed different kingdoms at the time, while the very fact that they are mentioned together shows that these kings were close neighbours. Their defeat by the Pratihāra-Gurjara king Vatsaraja had evidently been obtained before Gopala, the founder of the Pāla dynasty of Bengal, consolidated Gauḍa, Vaṅga and Magadha into one great empire.