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[N.S.] 
maditya (Lambaka XVIII, Taratga 3, verse 3). 
omadeva, second half of the eleventh 
(iv) Vikramanka- kavya of Bilhana. The Chalukya 
Vikramaditya of Kalyana is said, rather mag- 
niloguently, to have carried his arms as far 
as Gaudaand Kamaripa (III. 71). 
Poem’s fps than 1081 A.D., end of 
eleventh cent 
(v) The drama of Anargha- Raghavars of Murari, purastaic- 
ampa nima Gaudanam .... rajadhani. (VII, 124, 
p- 310, N.S.P. Ed. 
rari, not later than ella ee 
(vi) ar Bengal poet Sarana’s verse, 1. , Sakti-karn- amrta 
Sri-dhara-dasa, Bhru- ksepad- ae on gayati 
viharate murdhniyo Magadhasya,.} 
Boa third quarter of the twelfth century. 
From about the middle of the twelfth areal the Sena 
ng, originally of Vanga and Suhma, 
encroached on the seat of 
the Palas, and eventually otiated then from Gauda. During the 
reign of Laksmanasenadeva, the whole of Gauda appears to have 
Senas, 
Benares and oe (versell). Nat turally Es came to be called the 
Gauda king, e.g., in the Pavana-ditam of Dhoyi Kaviraja, verses 
5, 96, 101.2 Simitaely a in the Bakarganj and th plates,® 
Visvarupasenadeva, his son, is called lord of Gaud 
The Mussalmans began at first with the ze of Bihar and 
Nidiah. But shortly after they re 
See mne peeten, moved their base of operations to Gacee 
capital, Lakhanawati. Gradually they invaded and began to 
k : 
e possession of the adjoining tracts, until, e t f 
Husam-ud-din az, Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din, “the whole of that 
territory named Gaur passed under his con | Has, i ct w 
mint “struck in Gaur.”5 Gauda did not include Vaaga or Tira- 
bhukti, for in addition it is recorded: “The parts aro around about 
the state of Lakhanawati, such as Jaj-nagar, the countries of Bang, 
amrid and Tirhut, all sent tribute to him.”® Bihar was 
probably included in Ganda ; for “The august Sultan, Shams-ud- 
din wa ud-danya, on several occasions, sent forces from the capital, 


A.S.B., 1906, p. 174, note 1. Ganda is in this verse named separate 
pais Maa a, 
A.S.B., 1905, pp. 58, 67, 6 
ieee , VII, p. 43¢; th.8Bi 1895, p. lf. 
‘ Tabakat-i Naviri, pp. 587-88. 
5 J.R.AS., VI, 350, wood-cut; a gold coin, 70°6 grains. 
6 Tab. Nas., Raverty, pp. 587-8. 
