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Gopāla I

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  • Chimpa, THBI, index.
  • Templeman, TLK, p. 83.
  • Sørensen, TBH, pp. 69, 545. Original king in the Pāla dynasty.
  • Davidson, IEB, pp. 51-52, 239.
  • N.K. Bhattasali, Two Inscriptions of Gopāla of Bengal, Indian Historical Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 1941), pp. 207-222.
  • Gopāla I, father of Dharmapāla. Said to have founded Odantapurī (or Uddaṇḍapura). Dasgupta, ORC, p. 11
  • Davidson, KCN, p. 74. The dynasty's founder, he is said to have been elected by a community of his peers when the country was under the 'rule of fishes' (matsyanyāya).
  • Reigned 775-785. Banerji-Sastri, Kurkihar, p. 301.
  • Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 659-660.
  • Sanderson in G&D, p. 94.