Vol. LX, No. 7.] Laksmanasena. 275 
[N.S.] 
Ballalasena, now in the sonapte of the Bombay Government, 
contains the following ve 
Kha-nava-kh = ait =abde arebhe adbhiitasigaram 
Gaudendra Kuijaralana-stambha-vahur = mahipateh.! 
The agreement of the date from two different works 
seems to prove beyond doubt that Ballalasena was alive in 
8. 1090-91, ie. 1168-9 a.p. Consequently it had to be admit- 
ted that Laksmanasena came to the throne after 1169 a.p. 
Bat Dr. Kielhorn had already proved that the initial year of 
the era of Laksmanasena is equivalent to 1119-20 a.p. In 
order to reconcile these sedan fcc sie Nagendra Nath 
Vasu Se - following theo 
news pleased him so much that in his newly conquered king- 
=e pS inaugurated a new era, which he named the Laksmana 
P Sis far as is known at present, nobody has looked into 
the genuineness of the evidence brought against Dr. Kielhorn’s 
theo ory. The manuscript of Danasagara in the eee collec- 
) 
years The copy in the India Office collection is said to be 
written in modern Bengali handwriting’ and consequently it 
cannot be much older than Nagendra Babu’s MS. There is a 
copy of the same work in the collection of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal.+ Thisis also written in modern Bengali characters, 
and is very nearly v from mistakes. In this copy none o 
the three verses quoted above can be traced, ipa ot the verses 
ee the genealogy of the Sena Kings are give 
ese verses are also absent in a copy of shass same work 
in the library of the Maharaja of Pathuriaghata.° This 
have four an was copied i in Saka 1728, i.e., 1806 a.p. Thus we 
! Report on the Search of Sanskrit MSS. in “ Bombay Presi- 
dency, 1887. 83, 1888-89, 1889-90 and 1890-91, p. Ixxx 
* J.A.S.B. 1896, pt. I, p. 2 
. : Heine s India Office fax Pt III, p. 545. 
I, A., 78. 
Vol. I, oo Lala Mitra’s Notices of Sanskrit MSS., Ist series, 
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