Vol. I, No. 3.]  Pavana-ditam or Wind-Messenger. 49 
LN. 8.] 
are named Nanya, Raghava, hip ic and Vira, as (kings) who 
were kept in prison. Presumably these names include the 
names of the defeated iio Who was the defeated king of 
Kalinga? Is he Raghava ? oats was undoubtedly the name of 
a Kalinga king who Sat between A.D. 1156-11712 The early 
ged of Raghava (A.D. 1156- 60) would fit in with the last years 
of Vijayasena, if the above view be adopted. 
ccording to Tabakit-i-Nasiri,? the news of the victories of 
Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar and of his conquest of Bihar reached the 
ears of Rae Lakhmaniah, when he had been on the throne for a 
period of eighty years; and the ee year he invaded the 
Rac’ 8 capital Niidiah and sacked it ow, arule of eighty years 
and more is not in poo credible, as I hie already pointed out. 
But = the year be taken as Samvat 80 of the era during the reign 
it ars. is edule make the inroad and the sack of 
Niadiah fall in Samvat 81 or A.D. 1199-1200. This date very 
nearly agrees with the date arrived at from Mussulman histories 
by Dr. Blockmann: as A.H. 594 or A.D. 1198.5 
Yo doubt re ae Raverty held the date of inroad as A.H. 
590 or A.D. 1194, because Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar who died in 
a ge is said to bave Panga 12 hiesie But this Hoes not 
lika under Laksmanasena, though 
him.!0 Evidently therefore this Par did not 
me ing that work in A.D, 1205 1200 A.D. might accord - 
ingly be taken as the approximate termination of Laksmanasena’s 
le. 
nd. I, ee ty lines 19-20. 
As. S , LXXII, p. 118. 
msl, pp tg 555, 6 557. 
. Ant., XIX, p- 7. 
» XLY, 276. 
transl. 5 te 4 — p. 559, note 8 below p. 573. 
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Sines, Notices of Sanskrit MSS., III, p. 141. 
