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The empire was founded with the election of Gopāla as the emperor of Gauda in late eighth century CE. [1] The Pala stronghold was located in Bengal and eastern Bihar, which included the major cities of Gauḍa, Vikramapura, Pāṭaliputra, Monghyr, Somapura, Ramavati , Tāmralipta and Jagaddala. [17]
Gopala (Bengali: গোপাল) (ruled c. 750s –770s CE) [2] was the founder of the Pala dynasty, which was based in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. The last morpheme of his name Pala means "protector" and was used as an ending for the names of all the Pala monarchs. Pala does not suggest or indicate any ethnic or caste ...
Dharmapala [a] was the second Pala emperor of Bengal in the Indian subcontinent.He was the son and successor of Gopala, the founder of the Pala dynasty.Dharmapala was mentioned as the King of Vangala (Vangapati) in the Nesari plates (dated 805 AD) of Rashtrakuta dynasty. [5]
It is named after its ruling dynasty, whose rulers bore names ending with the suffix Pāla ("protector" in Prakrit). The empire was founded with the election of Gopāla as the emperor of Gauda in late eighth century CE. [12] Pala Empire ruled the whole Bengal region after the fall of King Shashanka's Gauda Kingdom.
Vikramashila was established by the Pala emperor Dharmapala (783 to 820 CE) in response to a supposed decline in the quality of scholarship at Nalanda. It was destroyed by the forces of Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji around 1193. [3] [4]
Brahma Pala (reigned 900-920) was the founder of the Pala Dynasty (900–1100) of the Kamarupa kingdom. [1] He married Kula Devi, by whom he had a successor to his throne named Ratna Pala . See also
The Pala dynasty of Kamarupa kingdom ruled from 900 CE. Like the Pala Empire of Bengal , the first ruler in this dynasty was elected, which probably explains the name of this dynasty "Pala". The Hindu orthodoxy drew their lineage from the earlier Varman dynasty and thus ultimately from Narakasura i.e. Bhauma dynasty .
Gopala, the founder of the Pala dynasty, who ascended the throne of Bengal in 750 CE, founded the monastic university at Odantapuri. According to Bu-ston, however, the Odantapuri monastery was built by Gopala's son and successor, Dharmapala; while according to Taranatha, it was founded by either Gopala or Devapala.