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subsequently he was raised to the office of the Lord Chancellor 

 Dharmcklh'iMra* This is not practicable within the space of eight 

 years, and I feel no hesitation in assigning to him two and a half times 

 that number of years ; the remaining three years being left for Madhava 

 and Kesava and possibly for Su or Sura Sena should a prince of that 

 name be hereafter verified. For the present I am disposed to throw out 

 a hint that Su Sura Noujeb and As'oka were probably the proper name 

 and aliases of the prince whose patronymic was Lakhmaniya. Prinsep, 

 following the Ayin Akbary, takes 1136 to be the date of the Bakerganj 

 plate, but as that authority makes Lakhmaniya begin his reign in the 

 year 1200 A. D. and fly to Orissa three years after, when Minhajuddin, 

 who had ample opportunities of conversing with the contemporaries of 

 Lakshmana, and was himself in Bengal a few years after his overthrow, 

 assures us that that prince reigned for 80 years, we may without com- 

 punction reject its evidence as unworthy of belief. The ancestors of 

 Ballala from Hemanta to Vira Sena were hitherto unknown to history, 

 and even now the inscription under notice does not name the time when 

 they flourished. The final settlement of their dates must, therefore, be 

 left for future research. If we assign to them the usual Indian average 

 of 18 years to a reign, the Sena dynasty may be arranged as follows : — ■ 



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Brdhmana Sarvasva. 



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