1865.] On the Sena Rajas of Bengal. 135 



the Sena dynasty was Lakhmaniya, and this authority must be accepted 

 as correct, as the work was written within fifty-eight years after 

 the conquest of Bengal by Bakhtiar Khilijy, and its author had 

 ample opportunities, during his sojourn in Bengal, of conversing 

 with the contemporaries of Lakhmaniya who had taken part in that 

 conquest, and of collecting the most authentic information available in 

 his time. The account given in that book is as follows : — 



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Translation. — Contemporary historians, on whom be the blessings of 

 God, have thus related : " That when the news of the valour and the wars 

 and subjugation of kingdoms by Mohammed Bakhtyar, may the mercy 

 of Grod be on him, reached Lakhmaniya, the capital of his kingdom 

 was Nuddea. The Raya was very learned and had sat on the 

 throne for 80 years. It will not be amiss to mention here an anecdote 

 of the Raya which has come to my knowledge ; it is this : When the 

 father of the Rtiya passed away from this world, Raya Lakhmaniya 

 was in his mother's womb. The crown was therefore placed on the 

 womb, and the officers of State all girt themselves and stood round 

 and behind the mother. The family of this prince was known as the 

 Raya of Rayas of Hind by the wise men of the time, and reckoned as 



