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Narayanapala
Narayanapala was a king of the Pala dynasty of Bengal and Bihar who reigned for over fifty years in the second half of the ninth century. He belonged to a collateral line that came to the throne after Devapala, and under him the Palas lost Magadha for a time to the Gurjara-Pratiharas. A Buddhist, he also endowed temples of Shiva, and he is named in the Badal pillar inscription.
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