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Badal pillar inscription
The Badal pillar inscription is a Sanskrit inscription on a stone pillar topped by a figure of Garuda at Badal in northern Bangladesh, set up by Guravamishra during the reign of the Pala king Narayanapala. It records a Brahmin family whose members served successive Pala kings as chief ministers, among them Darbhapani and Kedaramishra, showing the importance of Brahmin officials at a Buddhist court.
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