eS = 
Vol. II, No. 2.] The Bengal poet Dhoyika, etc. 17 
[N.S.] 
The only colophon giving the La. Sa. with another era. The ey 
do not agree on the basis of Saka 1041-2. It is possible that the 
figures have been wrongly read or copied. Then Saka 1399=La. Sa. 
357, if the date fell in the months Cattra- Aswina 
Thes in 
42, or - D. Td. 20 ; and if there is any a? ricki in the iad 
Mate, thatit was adopted by the king Laksmanasena. 
he use of genitive in the king’s name, 
Fike gyh co s ary though the year was of an era, I have 
signify regnal traced to an old period. In the Taxila 
year. plate of Patika, the inscription begins :— 
An old example. 
[Samvatsa] raye athasatatimae 20 20 20 10 - 4 Maharayasa 
Mahamtasa [Mo] gasa, (p. 75) 
About which Biihler remarked :—“The year 78 is, of course, 
not that of the a> of Moga, but of the era which he used. " 
(Ep. wists IV., p. 76 
manasena + Sadeens may be the era of the founder of the Sena 
idee though passing in the name of Laksmanasena. 
n the Sukti-karn-Gmrta six verses are quoted under the 
s name Srimat-Kegavasenadeva, and one verse 
rsdn, Ko under Purusottama-padanaim, along with 
savasena ? one verse under Sri-Ballalasenadeva-pada- 
m, and eleven verses under the name Sri- 
mal-Laksmanasenadeva (ie simply Sri-L. or Sri-L,-sena without 
Deva).' Were, therefore, a prince by name KeSavasenadeva in the 
Sena dynasty, and another prince named Purugottama ? = /’adanam 
sep read in the Bakarganj plate the name Keéavasena, asa son of 
Laksmanasena, though this is now said to be a misreading of Vis- 
vartpasena. In its Soop list of Bengal kings, the Ain:i- 
Akbari mentions one Kes n, the second remove from Lachman 
Sen (Teanaleloe. II. 146). 
It is clear that from Vijaysena’s time downwards, the 
of Gauda, Vanga, Suhma, and probably 
Gina ene: ofthe Radha, came to be under the sway of the 
macs Sena kings. An inscription of Vijayasena 
the 8@ ard caitheniee lanes one verse (No. 763) is quoted under 
Silibieoun: and one verse (No. 923) under Luksmanasena. In paaear Vidya- 
sagar’s anthology, Kévya-samgraha, under the heading Padya-samgrahah, four 
verses are cited, two being Same of Laksmanasena and the other ss ed 
the reply of his father Ballalas 
In the A aeasagie under we heading Sapt-arsiném-adbhutani I find 
the following i sepoats, passage Pr isi a-vasu-daga 1081 mita ont srima 
Ballélasena- rijy adauce vars-eka- -gast hi-munir-vinihito = visesayam dia Gort 
mek * 52a. Was ene n fake 1081 Ay D. 1159-60) the first Pea of Ballin 
eign P The e MS. (fol. 28b) also refers to “ 1 der 
the 1 neeitiag Biches pater olihvad-toartah. —M.M.C, 12-38-1906. 
