Baghaura Narayana Image-inscription of Mahipala

14 During this period the relation of the Candras to the P51as of Bengal and Bihar might possibly have been like that of the Candr:itrevas to the Pr4tili5ras of K.piatij in the troth century. [...] who could positively deny the possibility of the Pala Mahipala I. the date of the Baghaura image inscription extending his power in the east to Samatata sometime before when Trailokvcandra's efforts were still concentrated on becoming the king of the "island which had the word `Candra' prefixed to The idea that the Candras were feudatories at least up to the 3rd year of the Pratihara prince M [...] The Riimpal grant of srCandradeva states that the Candrath:m;.a ruled over I Rlohitagiirifl.22 The upper part of the first letter read as I? is broken and the final ri is 17 The identification of this place with Bilakenduai near the findsnot of the inscription is not definite. [...] The further suggestion that the Candras were feudatories of the Pratihiira emperors of Kanauj at least up to the third year of Mahipala I in the absence of any Candra record bearing the names of their ovelords is again as we have seen on present evidence improbable.'' On the contrar the suggestion of Dr. [...] Sometimes as in the case of the Gupta tine the personal name of the first prince gave the name to the dynasty.1:b Thus though the name of the secbnd prince of the did not end in Gupta the line itself continued to be called Dynasty of Gupta.'' Again many dynasties in India claimed to belong to the Candivaip Ca or tile Siirya-vam.;a as they rightly or wrongly believed that they were descended