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On the Sena Rdjds of Bengal. 



[No. 3, 



however, better known in this country by the system of hereditary 

 nobility which he established in his court than by his devotion to 

 letters. The main object of that system was to give preeminence to 



^ft^TTO Xfk ^T»T^RT : I IM - 20—3. The work is divided into 70 Sections 



and devoted to a description of 1375 gifts, the mode of consecrating them, the pro- 

 per persons to give them to, the time meet for making such gifts, &c. &c. The 

 author enumerates in his introduction the different authorities he had consulted 

 in compiling his work, and as his list gives an idea of the works which were 

 reckoned as standard authorities in his time, 9 hundred years ago, I quote it 

 entire. 



Purdnas. 



Brahma. 



Varaha. 



Agni. 



Bhavishya. 



Matsya. 



Kurma. 



A'dya. 



Upapurdna. 



Adya, 



Samba. 



Kalika. 



Nandi. 



A'ditya. 



Narasmha. 



Markandeya. 



Vishnudkarmottara. 



B'dstras. 



Vishnu-dharma. 



Gopatha Brahmana. 



Bamayana. 



Mahabharata. 



Manu. 



Vasi-shtha. 



Samvarta. 



Yajnavalkya. 



Gotama. 



Katyayana. 



Yavala. 



Sandana. 



Vrihaspati. 



Vrihad Vasishtha. 



Harita. 



Bulasta. 



Vishnu. 



Satatapa. 



Yama. 



Y ogay aj n avalky a. 



Devala. 



Baudhayana. 



A'ngirasa. 



Danavyasa. 



Vrihaspati ? ? 



Sankha. 



Likhita. 



Apastamba. 



Satyayana. 



Maha Vyasa. 



Laghu Vyasa. 



Laghu Harita. 



Ghhandoga perisishta. 



S'lokas are often repeated by panditas, which tradition ascribes to this 

 prince. It is said that once when his son Lakshmana was long absent from 

 home, his daughter-in-law brought the circumstance to his notice by writing the 

 following s'loka on the wall before the place where he used to dine : — 



" The clouds are pom - ing without intermission and the peacocks are dancing 

 with joy ; on such a day death or my darling alone can remove my suffering." 

 Touched by it he invited his son back to his home with the following stanza : — - 



"O thou who art disposed as the second (the Bull — listen)." Alone and op- 

 pressed is she with the breasts like the eleventh (pitchers-globes) of the elephant, 

 by the approach of him who has the tenth (Makara on his flag Cupid), even as are 

 the twelfth (fishes) and the fourth (crabs), on the approach of the shark (maka- 

 ra). That sixth (virgo), with eyebrows without compare, (lit. devoid of the seventh 

 libra), who should belong to the royal fifth (lion-prince is suffering from the pangs 

 of the eighth (scorpio). 0, first (aries — my son) hasten and be thou the third 



