ASI Report of A Tour in Bihar and Bengal in 1879-80 from Patna to Sunargaon (Volume XV)

Book Specification Item Code: AZA491 Author: A. Cunningham Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India Language: English Edition: 2000 Pages: 264 (Throughout B/W Illustrations) Cover: HARDCOVER Other Details 9.8 x 6.10 inches Weight 690 gm Book Description Preface THE present volume gives the results of a Tour which I made in the cold season of 1879-80 in Bihar and Northern Bengal. I first visited Mahâbodhi, or Buddha Gaya, where I had the good fortune to pick up two dated inscrip. tions, one of which is of considerable importance in fixing the date of the accession of Dharma Pâla, the second Prince of the Pâla dynasty of Bengal. I had already placed the date of his accession in A.D. 830," but the present inscription affords the means of fixing it absolutely to the fol. lowing year 831 A.D. The inscription is thus recorded : S. 26 " Bhádra pada badi 5 Saturday.” The mention of the week day shows that the 26th of Dharma Pâla must have fallen in A.D. 856, and his first y