Dharma Pala

Dharma Pala
King of Kamarupa
Reign1035 – 1060
PredecessorHarsha Pala
SuccessorJaya Pala
DynastyPala

Dharma Pala (1035–1060) was ruler of Pala dynasty of Kamarupa Kingdom.[1] He was the son and the successor of Harsha Pala.

Three copper plates are found from Dharma's reign:

  1. Khonamukh plates
  2. Subhankarapataka grant
  3. Pushpabhadra plates

The first and second charters were composed by the same poet since they are couched in similar language and were issued by Dharma Pala - Resplendent in the grandiosity and pomposity of usual titles. The Khonamukh charter was issued in the first year of his reign. The donee was Bhatta Mahabahu, a son of Vishnu and grandson of Ummoka and sprang from a Brahmin family, belonging to the Kashyap caste and the Kanva Shakha of the Yajurveda and hailing from Madhya Desa. The charter at serial 2 was issued in the third regnal year. The donee was from the village Krodanja in Shravasti, known for its learned Brahmins. The said village has been identified with Karanja in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. The name of Krodanja is elsewhere found as Krodanchi and Kolanchi, which was centre of learned Brahmins in the Kannauj region of Uttar Pradesh and the Brahmins of this place, who settled in north Bengal appears to have given the name of their old habitation to their new habitat as in the cases of Sravasti and Tarkari.

  1. ^ Choudhury, P. C, The History of Civilisation of the People of Assam to the Twelfth Century A.D