Vol. V, No. 11.] Madhainagar Grant of Lakemana Sena. 469 
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first twenty-four lines contain thirteen or fourteen verses, lines 25 
to 49 are in prose, while the last six lines contain three or four 
of the usual imprecatory verses. 
The inscription records the grant of the village Dapaniyapa- 
taka in the Paundravarddhana bhukti by Paramesgvara Parama 
ATS o* D hl tta 1 wreaks aja a1: Aja Laksmana- 
sena Deva to a Brahmana named Govindadevagarman. The first 
His son Ballala Sena married a daughter of the Calukya kings. 
Ballala’s son Laksmana Sena defeated the King of Benares, The 
last four verses are in a fragmentary state and there is no hope 
ed an army into Orissa, There is also a reference to the King 
of Kasi or Benares being defeated in a battle, but the rest have 
been lost. 
Up to date three copperplate grants of Laksmana Sena _ have 
been brought to light. The Tarpanadighi grant and the Anulia 
grant have been published in the Society’s Journal. The third, said 
to have been discovered in the Sunderbans, has been noticed in an 
aa Tara 
lost sight of. The first seven verses of these three grants are 
identical. The peculiarity of the Madhainagara grant is that 
mentioned above. Two of its verses resemble two verses in the 
Deopara inscription of Vijaya Sena. The sixth verse of this grant 
resembles the sixteenth verse of the Deopara inscription. The fifth 
the fourth verse of this grant. The Madhainagara grant brings 
four historical facts of the period of the Sena Kings into promin- 
ence ;: — 
Bengalis, Kayasthas or Vaidyas. e 
probably a relic of the invasion of Bengal by Rajendra 
Cola, and owed their territorial possessions to that 
monarch. ‘ : 
(2) Ballala Sena married a daughter of the Calukya kings 
and that one of his wives was named Rama Devi 
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1 J.A.S.B., 1873, pt. i, p. 11, and 1900, pt. i, p. 61. 
