History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.310.6

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(7) Vigrahapāla, ng of Bengal, who belonged to the Buddhist Pāla dynasty, anted in the 12th year of his reign a village to a Sāmavedi thmana after taking a bath in the Ganges on a lunar ipse in honour of Buddha (Bhagavantam Buddhabhattārakam diśya) by the Amgacchi grant (E I. Vol. XV. p. 293 at . 295-298, about 1000 A. D); (8) The successor of king igrahapāla (iii) by name Mahīpāla granted a village in honour Buddha after a bath in the Ganges in Visuva-sankrānti to a hmana (E I. Vol. XIV. p. 324), vide also I. A. vol. 21 : 253-258 for a grant of Devapāladeva, a Buddhist king of engal, about the end of the 9th century, recording a grant of a llage to a learned brāhmana (9) In the Kalacuri stone scription from Kasia (E. I vol. XVIII p 128) the first invoca- on in prose is to Rudra and then to Buddha, the first two verses are in praise of Śaṅkara, 3rd in praise of Tārā (a Buddhist deity) and the 4th and 5th verses praise Buddha (who is styled Muniṅdra); (10) Kumāradevī, 4th queen of Govindacandra (1114-1154 A D.), a Gāhadavāla king of Kanauj and an orthodox Hindu, built a *vihāra* in which she placed an image of Dharma-cakra Jina i e. Buddha (vide E. I. Vol. IX p. 319 at p. 324); (11) Govindacandra himself made a gift of six villages to a Buddhist learned ascetic (Śākyaraksita by name) who hailed from Utkala (Orissa) and to his pupil for the benefit of the Saṅgha at Jetavana Mahāvihāra (vide the Sahet-Mahet plate of Govindacandra dated *saṁvat* 1186, i. e. 1128-29 A. D.