18 N. N. Vasu—Chronology of the Séna Kings of Bengal. [No. 1, 
and Loka-pala, so I believe that Vira-séna may have been also known as 
Sura-séna. This prince I would identify with king Sura-séna, who married 
the princess Bhoga-dévi, the sister of Atncu-varma Raja of Népala, who was 
the contemporary of Hiuen Tsiang, and of whom Pandit Bhagawan-lal 
Indraji has published inscriptions, dated in A.D. 645 and 651. In No. 14 
of these Nepal records, the son of Sura and Bhoaga-dévi is named Bhoga- 
varma, while in another record (No. 15) he is said to be the son of the great 
Aditya-séna, the illustrious Lord of Magadha. Hence it seems probable that 
the later Séna Rajas of Bengal were the direct descendants of Aditya-séna-~ 
déva, the great king of Magadha,’ 
Dr. Rajéndralala Mitra again comes out with the observation 
that ‘ Vira-Séna’ mentioned in the inscription of Vijaya-séna, the 
founder of the Séna Dynasty, was no other than Adictira, who brought 
five Brahmanas and five Kayasthas from Kanauj.’ ! 
D. Dr. Hoernle, in his Review of the Séna Kings of Bengal, 
says :— 
‘It was Vijaya-séna, who, after defeating the king of the Pala 
Dynasty of Gauda, became the first king of Bengal, and his predeces- 
sors, Samanta and Hémanta, were rulers of some territories in Paundra- 
vardhana, at a time when Narayana-pala reigned in Bengal, between the 
years A.D. 1006 and 1026.’ 
He says further that ‘ Vijaya-séna’s other name was Adicira’ ? and 
adds :— 
“It was probably the successor of the latter (Narayaua-pala), who was 
supplanted in the Bengal kingdom by Vijaya-séna (or Sukha-séna), the first 
Bengal king (though the fourth in descent) ‘of the Séna family, whose date is 
about A.D. 1030."8 
E. In a Bengali work, 4the author Babu Mahima-candra Mazim- 
dar gives his view of the subject thus: ‘The Am-i-Akbari gives the 
commencement of the reign of Ballala-séna in 1066 A.D., and Mr. 
Prinsep accepts this; but in respect of the ancient rulers of Ganda, the 
Ain cannot be relied upon as an authority. The writer (presumably 
Dr. Rajéndralala Mitra) of an article in the Rahasya Sandarbha, believ-~ 
ing the year of this event to be Caka 1019, supports his statement by a 
citation from the Samaya-prakaca, which, however, as a matter of fact 
indicates the year as Caka 1091.’.... Assuming A.D. 1066 as the 
correct year of Ballala-séna’s accession to the throne and A.D. 1203 as 
the year in which his son lost it, the difference would be 137 years—a 
1 See Mitra’s Indo-Aryans, Vol. II. p. 241. 
4 Centenary- Review of the Researches of the Society, 1784-1883, pp. 209-10. 
3 Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIV. p. 165. 
4 ats ST@U (Brahmans in Gauda). pp. 90 and ff. 
