374 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N ovember, 1912. 
India, and the author of Kadambari and HarSacarita. Nagoji 
hatta, the great commentator of the 18th century on Maha- 
bhassya and various other works, and a man of phenomenal 
learning and phenomenal activity, whose survey of Indian 
literature was perhaps the widest ever known, has written a 
commentary on Maydra’s Sirya Sataka in the preface to 
by hanging, his century of hymns to the Sun, his deliverance 
from the dire disease, his relations with Vana, his son-in-law 
and rival, and his sojourn in Kanouj, the capital of the 
The age of these three great men—HarSa, Vana and Mayira 
—is well known. Hara reigned from 606 to 648; Vana died 
before the middle of the reign without finishing the first great 
historical work in India which he undertook, namely, the 
history of Hargavardhana Mayiira lived to a great age but it 
is not known when he died. 
If the Bissen family is to be traced from this Mayara, 115 
generations are to be crammed into little more than 12 
centuries, giving nine generations to a century, a thing which 
transcends belief and is against all human probability. 
Another attempt was made to identify this Mayira with 
a 
The Bissens for 79 generations had the surname Sena. 
From the 80th they changed it into Malla. This is a statement 
theory is weak as the Bissens are Mallas but recently, only about 
35 generations, a period which cannot be by any manipulation 
of arithmetical figures stretched to spread over more than 24 
centuries which have elasped since the Nirvana of Buddha. 
