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is a surname and not a propername. If we take it to be aproper 

 name, we shall have to acknowledge that the word eiabhyam 

 in the 24th line refers to Vi&varupa and Tadadevl. ' Consequently 

 in the case of the Madanapada grant we would have to admit 

 that Vi&varupasena was the son of king ViSvarupa andTada- 

 devi. Therefore it is quite certain that the word Viisvarwpa in 

 the 17th line is an epithet and not a proper name. The Edilpnr 

 grant contains several additional verses, consequently it might 

 be stated that ViSvarupasena was Kesavasena's predecessor. 

 They were not contemporary sovereigns, because both grants 

 mention the V ikramapurabhaga or division. One pecuharify 

 of the Madanapada grant of ViSvarupasena has been overlooked 

 by the learned Editor. The name Vttvaru'pa occurs twice, and 

 in each case it is evident that the engraver had run short or 

 space. In the present grant the name of the king has been 

 incised in the place of another name, which had been scratched 

 off. But the space is quite sufficient for the new name. 

 Evidently the former name consisted of three or more syllables. 

 The space in the plate was insufficient for writing the king s 

 name, ViSvarupasena, on it, and consequently the letters are 

 very small. It may be that some name with three syllables 

 was erased and Kefava incised in its place, while in the Madana- 

 pada grant a name with three syllables was erased and the 

 name ViSvarupa, with four syllables, substituted for it. The 

 genealogy of the Sena kings of Bengal would therefore be : 



Virasena. 



Samantasena 



Hemantasena 



I 



Vijavasena. 



'I 



Ballal^sena. 



Lakshmanasena . 



i i 



Madhavasena (?) VisVarupasena. KeSavasena. 



The inscription records the grant of a village in the Pawj- 

 dr avarddhana-bhukti and Vikramapura bhaga, by the Pararrtei- 

 vara pararnabhattaraka , the devout worshipper of the Sun god, 

 the Maharajadhiraja Ke&avasenadeva, who meditated on the 

 feet of the illustrious Laksmanasenadeva, who meditated on 

 the feet of the illustrious Balldlasenadeva , who meditated on 

 the feet of the illustrious Vijayasenadeva. 



I This is clearly the reading of the plate, which, of course, should be 

 corrected into TaradGvi or Chandradevi as the case may be, because the 

 verse occurs in both grants. 



