274 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (July, 1918. 
from the commencement of the reign of Laksmanasena, that 
reign itself was a thing of the pas t.’! Dr. Kielhorn’s trans- 
lation of the Jast sentence of ins cst No. III possesses the 
advantage of being clearer than those of his predecessors in 
the same field. It leaves no doubt about the fact that the use 
of the word atita is a clear indication of the cessation of 
Laksmanasena’ sreign. Further on he says :— 
en we are told that, at the conquest of Bengal by 
Muhammad Bukhtiyar, which by Mr. Blochmann is placed 
about a.D. 1198-99, the last Hindu King Lakhmaniya had 
been reigning for 80 years, does not this really mean that the 
conquent took place in the year 80 of Laksmanasena-era,— 
02’ 
Timal 
WOL ADL 
sa 
From his ‘synchronistic list for “Northern India® (A.D. 
700-1400) published ay: it appears that Dr. Kielhorn 
had then abandone eo 
In 1896 Babu ia. Nath Vasu in his article 
‘*Chronology of the Sena. Kings of Bengal’’* quoted some 
verses from Danasagara, a work said to be composed by Ballala- 
sena, according to which Ballalasena was alive in 1169 a.D. 
Within a very short time Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar published 
his sixth report on the Search for Sanskrit Manuscripts in 
According to pose verses the pane against Dr. Kielhorn’s 
theory may by summed up as follo 
Two esciariits of Dinasigara, by Ballalasena, King 
of Bengal, contain the following passage 
N ikhila- cakra-tilaka-srimad- Rallihdiemons purne 
Sasi-navadasamite gakavarse Danasagaro racitah. 
One of these MSS. is in the India Office collection® and in 
this the date is given in numerical figures also. The other is 
in the possession of Babu Nagendra Natha Vasu.’ This 
manuscript contains two more verses elucidating the date :-- 
Ravibhaganah sarasista ye bhuta danasagarsy = asya 
Kramaso’ tra samparidanudadya vatsara paiica 
T'ad-evam eka-navaty- RUDE DATS AREAL nvite sake 
Samvatsarah patanti Visvapadarabhya ca 
(2) A a of apenas another work by 
1 toa Ant. , Vol. XI 
sora X, p. 2, note 3. 
8 Ind. Ant., ‘vol. Vv 
i and J.AS.B. 1896 » pt. a 
eport on the Search for sae kri i MSS. in the Bombay Presi- 
Penh ducing the years 1887-88, = 89, 1889-90 and 1890-91. 
6 Eggeling’s India Office Cat., t. ILI, p. 545 
' Sastri’s Notices of poet MSS, 2nd series, Vol. I, p. 170. 
8 J.A.8.B, 1896, pt. I 
