The University of Nalanda c9.163
The University of Nālandā c9.163
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c9.163
After Dēvapāla the chain again seems to break, for we have no records of Pāla Kings after Dēvapāla till we come to Gopāla II. It is only when we come to Gopāla II that the name of Nālandā is once again mentioned in relation to a Pāla King. This relation is referred to on the foot of an image of a goddess Vāgīśwarī thus: The image of the goddess Vāgīśwarī, at Nālandā, was covered with a gold-leaf by some unnamed person in the first year of Gopāladēva.³ This Gopāladēva is identified with Gopāla II by Banerji.⁴ As his regime over Magadha was very short we cannot say if he could encourage the University save with some donations.