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4, A note on Haldyudha, the author of Bréhmanasarbasva.—By 
Yoorsa Cuanpra S/AstRee, 
Part I. 
Brahmanasarbasva is a well-known book which deals with 
several books in Sanskrit dealing with the different branches of 
learning. There are different conjectures as to Se identity besides 
what is given by himself in his Brahmanasarbasy 
undita, Lalamohana Vidyanidhi, the ea an of Sambandha- 
sisting says that Halayudha, the Prime Minister of Lakshmana 
Sena, was the Halayudha of the Chatta family, who was honoured by 
Ballala Sena. He also says that this Lakshmana Sena equalized 
the rank among the Kulins of the Rarhi class, and was the son of 
Kesgaba Sena, end hence the great-grandson of Ballala Sena.! 
The late Pundita Muktirama Vidyabigisa, who edited Veni- 
samhara, a well- att drama by. sa Narayana, at the expense 
of the late Babu Prosanna Kumar Tagore of Calcutta, says in 
Sena was sixteenth in descent from Bhatta Narayana and was 
an ancestor of the Tagore family. He wrote many books on we ‘itis 
(Hindu Law and Usage) which are still extant. Dr. Raj 
Lala Mitra and Raja Sourindra Mohana Tagore, the ees ts of 
Babu Prosanna Kumara Tagore, mentioned above, are of the same 
mind with Vidyébagisa, only differing from him in ‘vaapevk of the 
degree of — en 
e Babu Syama Charana Sarakara, the author of oe 
basthbaiorasats a well-known digest of Hindu case law, writ 
its preface, most probably following Muktarima Vidyabagisa, ‘that 
1 Vide qaqeaferaray by Lila Mohana Vidydnidhi. First edition, pages 162, 
163, 207, 208, 209, 
UPACAM TYAN SLA: FRAT CATT ATH, aa |la- 
legMa aaa cafaa4r aeaasiaattcat | aq 
nan sata te weet | : 
aoa ead aigifme squads date afaare 
autfa @ ; 
afa vqmrcrafaaraiai ae aa 
Ama eeatewaaa aay | 
2 Vide Sena R&jas of Bengal, by Dr. R. L. Mittra, and English translation 
of Veni Sanhies by Baba Sourindra Mohana Tagore (now RAj ja). 
