‘Vol. I, No. 3.] A note on Haldyudha. 3D 
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4. A note on Haldyudha, the author of Brahmanasarbasva.—By 
Yoorsa CHANDRA S/ASTREE. S 
Part I. 
Brahmanasarbasya is a well-known book which deals with 
the explanation of certain Mantras of the Yajurveda. Its author was 
Halayudha—a Brahmana of considerable merit and talent. He 
was a great scholar of Vaidika and Loukika Sanskrit. He wrote 
several books in Sanskrit dealing with the different branches of 
learning. There are different conjectures as to his identity besides 
what is given by himself in his Brahmanasarbasva. 
Pundita Lalamohana Vidyanidhi, the author of Sambandha- 
nirnaya, 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 
Kegaba Sena, and hence the great-grandson of Ballala Sena. ! 
The late Pundita Muktarama Vidyabigisa, who edited Veni- 
samhara, a well-known dvama by Bhatta Narayana, at the expense 
of the late Babu Prosanna Kumar Tagore of Calcutta, says in 
its preface that Halayudha, the Prime Minister of Lakshmana 
Sena was sixteenth in descent from Bhatta Narayana and was 
an ancestor of the Tagorefamily. He wrote many books on Smritis 
(Hindu Law and Usage) which are still extant. Dr. Rajendra 
Lala Mitra and Raja Sourindra Mohana Tagore, the nephew of 
Babu Prosanna Kumara Tagore, mentioned above, are of the same 
mind with Vidyabagisa, only differing from him in respect of the 
degree of descent.? 
The late Babu Syama Charana Sarakara, the author of Vya- 
basthadarpanam, a well-known digest of Hindu case law, writes in 
its preface, most probably following Muktarama Vidyabagisa, that 
1 Vide qeqraferpuay by Lala Mohana Vidydnidhi. First edition, pages 162, 
163, 207, 208, 209, 
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2 Vide Sena Rajas of Bengal, by Dr. R. L. Mittra, and English translation 
of Veni Samhara by Babo Sourindra Mohana Tagore (now Raja). 
