By Jit Majumdar
Sometimes transliterated as: Dharmapala, DharmapAla, Dharmapaala
- protector/ keeper/ guardian of Dharma
- the 2nd ruler of the Pāla Dynasty of Bengal ( CE 770 – 810) and the son and successor of Gopāla, and the father and predecessor of Devapāla; a minister of King Daśaratha (A. Pur.).
