Vol. I, No. 3.]  Pavana-ditam or Wind-Messenger. 45 
[N. 8S. 
Suhma is the sat — of a Division of Bengal srt ae 
rthern Midnapore, teers Hughly w 
of the Sarasvati river the eastern mart 
of District Burdwan. amralipti was its port, wi and Vijayapura its 
capital, Vijayapura is apparently to be identified with Niadiah 
(Nadia or Navadviv), which was the capital of je at the 
time of the inroad of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar.? Is this name con- 
— in any way with Vijayasena, grandfather of Laknae 
sena ? 
The poet Dhoyika (or eesth Kaviraja as per colophon) can 
The time of the have time ascertained only approxi- 
oet. m e 4 ” Bein mentioned in Gita-govinda, 
verse 4, ih must be a contemporary of or slightly older than Jaya- 
deva. But Jayadeva’s time has not yet been definitely ascertained. - 
Dhoyika's s verse is quoted in Jalhana’s Subhasita-muktavali, com- 
piled in the second half of the 13th century? and in n Cridharadasa’s 
Sadukti-karnamrta compiled in A.D. 1205-6.4 So he must be 
earlier than 1205. He cannot be much earlier, for in the present 
Suhma, 
h 
wrdliad from A.D. 1170-1 to about 1200. He must have ruled 
for some time, before he could be mentioned as having gone out 
on world- -conquest (v. 2). Consequently the composition of the 
poem may be ein se inferred to have taken place in the fourth 
- quarter of the 12th c 
The text with an een) of cloka-beginnings and of proper 
names, chiefly geographical, is appended. 
APPENDIX. 
The Sena Dynasty of Bengal. 
The chronology of this dynasty was, up to a recent period, 
largely based on tradition S given in the 
The Sang Dynegy: Kula-panjikas of ghataks (matchmakers), 
and in such works as Ksttiga-vameavali-caritam and Ain-i-Akbari, 
Recent researches are, however, clearing the und. As the 
author of Pavana-ditam, peeve was the court poet of Lakgma- 
apeene it has become n ascertain the approximate time- 
of. this king, and tine ater "of the whole dynasty. 
 Dagakumara-carite 6th uecahdsa “* Suhmesu Damalipt-ahvayasya.” 
2R s translation 
Notices of Bombay Bans Perit Més., 1897, p. XXVI ae Kavirdja). 
4 RL. Mittra’a Notices of Sanskrit Mss , Vol. III, pp. 
