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| It may be noted
that a number of other places within Bhagalpur district have also been suggested as the
site o f that ancient university of Vikramshila, by scholars like Cunningham, Dr.
Satischandra Vidya Bhusan, N.L. Dey, A.P. Banerjee Shastri and others.Eventually the Palas
had become, as is well known, the rulers of Vanga and Gauda, an area actually comprising
the whole of what is now East and West Bengal. Anga, too, passed into their hands. Champa
was probably the capital of Gauda for some time. This appears from the study of the
Jainagar inscription. Whatever it be, it is clear that, under the Palas, Anga desha had
an era ofprosperity and a revival of culture. The Bhagalpur copper plate of Narayana Pala
indicates that this monarch had recovered north Bengal and Bihar from the hands of the
Pratihara king Mahendra Pala (c. 885-910 A.D.), who had previously defeated him. An
inscription dated the sixth year of the reign of Gopala IT, who 6d succeeded Narayana
Pala, has been found at qJajimpara in Malda district (West Bengal) and it refers to a
victorious camp of Gopala 11 at Ghataparbatika.
Ghataparbatika is traditionally associated with Bateshwarsthan at Patharghatta, near
Colgong, which is now once again accepted as the site of Vikramshila University. Later the
Sena kings also had their impact on Anga. |
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