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 139 APPENDIX C Hcre Purandar Pal, son of Ratnipal, is mentioned as marrying Princess Durlabhi, daughter of a king of the vast kingdom which Paraburdis once acquired by his prowess. The learned editor suggests that this kingdm possibly stretched about the Parasuram Kunda embracing the tracts since occupied by Mishmis and others. (KS, p. 127, fn. 1). Parasuram is said to have purged the world of Kytriya thrice been times, and one strong tradition maintains that one race of Ksatriyas of ancient of Asam disguised themselves as non-Ksatriyas for fear of Parasurama 'whence they became known as Kulo-lupta >Kulata > Kaliti, And the celebrated Kalita kingdom is known to have been locato in that part of the Himalayan region. Con it therefore be identified with the Kalita kingdom? On the other hand, as we have discussed elsewhere, the line of Naraka and Bhagadata, through Bhaskar Varma and of the Pala Kings of Klimarüpa, is alleged to belong to the Alpine race and they are said to be Kalitas. The fence of the Kalita kingdom is known to have far surpassed that of the Ahom kingdom by fifteenth century AD. when some descendants of high officials of the latter went to the Kalita king. dom and were helped to get themselves naturalised there. This king dom is now known to have been the first victim of Chinese Regression and was effaced from the surface of the earth about the eighteenth century. It is not yet, ascertained when this kingdom was first esta. blished there, but the fact already known is not unlikely that about the eleventh century A.D. it was in quite a flourishing condition to sequire the reputation of a priya rajya which produced a princess like Durlabha to the royal family of the Palas in the valley. KASEARUPA EXTENDED EVEN TO THE WEST OF THE KAUSIKA: It is a little too curious that the learned editor of KS had not done full justice to finding of the true location of Candrapuri where Bhislar Varma made the historie land-grant. He had said that it was attached to the western boundary of Bhikar's kingdom, which may mean the Karatoya as le has not named the Krušila even once in this connexion, although the text of the grant mentions it clearly and repeatedly. It runs as Yadeint Kauko paellaka leserye tatfela pratigrihaka Brohmand imena, Yattu garupacitaka Iretrom tadyatha Nikitaka Brih- wanasema wibhajatimit. Simio yatra prema Suska Kancil Paradoksinena sila buska Kau iba...uttaro-purvega...siba buka Keuilea eeti. Such persistent references to and and mentions of the Kaulika (mod. Kosi) con hardly be ignored. So we find that the land granted