IS'JG.] Babu N. N. VnHU—Chronvhujif of fin' Sena Kiugs of Bengal 3 



Narapatis Rajyairayadhipatis so often mentioued in the inscriptions of 

 the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 



The following papers wei'e read : — 



1. Oil the Radical and Pa)-ticipial Tenses of the Modern Indo-Aryan 

 Langriages. — By Gr. A. Grierson, Esq., Ph. D., C. I. E. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



2. Chronology of the Sena kings of Bengal. — By Babu Nagendra- 

 NATHA YaSU. 



(Abstract). 

 Though considerable research has been made to construct a genuine 

 history of the Sena kings, yet much remains to be done. The following 

 conclusions are the abstract of the results of my perusal of the manu- 

 scripts of the Dana-sagara, the Karikas of Edu-mi^ra and Hnri-rai^ra, 

 and other books, tlie genealogy of the Caudra-dvipa dynasty, and a newly 

 discovered copper-plate. 



1. After the leign of Adi-9ura and his descendants, the Pala kings 

 ascended the throne of Bengal. The Sena kings flourished after the 

 Pala kings. 



2. Vijaya-sena's son, Ballala-se;ia, wrote the Dana-sagara in 11C9 

 A.D., and ruled Bengal for 50 years. After ascending the throne, 

 Ballala set out for the conquest of Mithila, and while thei-e, he heard 

 the news of his son Laksmana's birth. There he inaugurated the 

 Laksmaiia era in 1119, in commemoration of his son's birth. 



3. Ballala's son, Laksmana-sena, established, after his father, kuli- 

 nism among the Brahmanas. He reigned for 27 or '28 years from 

 1170 to 1198-99 A.D., when Bengal was conquered by Muhammad-i- 

 Bakhtiar. 



4. According to the Aln-i-Akbarl, Madhava-sena and Ke^ava-sena 

 ruled Bengal in succession, after their father Laksmana-setia. But in 

 ray opinion they never ascended tlie throne. They were pi'obably govern- 

 ors of provinces, or regents of their father, during his life-time. Fol- 

 lowing the advice of the Pandits, Madhava-sena left his father's kingdom, 

 and went on a pilgrimage to Kedai'anatha, a fact corroborated by the 

 existence of a copper-plate grant of Madhava-sena in the Yoge9vara 

 temple near the city of Almora in Kumaun. 



5. Ke9ava-sena, likewise, went away for fear of the Muhamadans, 

 and took refuge iu the court of some king, — probably Vifvariipa-sena, 

 another son of Laksmana-sena, and described as the terrible destrover 

 of the Yavana dynasty in the copper-plate grant of the 14th year, 

 noticed by me in the last meeting, and who I suppose formally ascended 

 the throne in 1200 or 1201 A.D. 



