1865.] On the Sena Bdjds of Bengal. 139 



A. D. 



Vira Sena, 994 



Samanta Sena, 1012 



Hemanta Sena, , 1030 



Vijaya alias Sukha Sena, 1048 



Ballala Sena, 1066 



Lakshmana Sena, 1101 



Madhava Sena, 1121 



Kesava Sena, 1122 



Lakhmaniya, alias As'oka Su or Sura Sena, 1123 



The last overthrown by Bhakhtiar in 1203 



This arrangement brings the age of Vira Sena, probably the first of 

 the family who settled in Bengal, to very near the time which I have 

 assigned to Adis'ura in my paper on Mahendrapala,* and it would not be 

 too much to assume that Vira was the immediate successor of Adis'ura. 

 There is, however, no monumental or any ancient authentic record to 

 prove the date of A'dis'ura. The authorities quoted in my paper agree 

 in bringing him down to the time of Ballala, and must therefore be 

 rejected as false. The author of the Kdyastha Kaustubha places the 

 advent of the Kanauj Brahmans in Bengal in the year 380 Bengali or 

 892 A. D., which would place A'dis'ura in the midst of the Palas and be 

 altogether inconsistent with the history of the five original Brahmans 

 and Kayashtas of Bengal. Pere Tieffenthaler's authorities carry A'dis'ura 

 still further back, and place him twenty-two generations away from 

 Ballala. My date of Adis'ura is founded upon the genealogical tables of 

 the Kayasthas as now current in this country. Those tables give 27 

 generations from the time of A'dis'ura, and at 3 generations to a century 

 the time of that prince is carried to 964 of the Christian era. If there 

 be any error in the tables, it would no doubt falsify my deduction, but 

 as long as that error is not detected, that deduction will, I expect, 

 command more attention than the authorities I have quoted. But be 

 that as it may, as far as we are at present informed, it must be admitted 

 that the two princes lived at times very close to each other. It is said 

 by some that Adis'ura was the father of Ballala ; while others maintain 

 that he was the progenitor of the Sena dynasty. The first statement 

 may at once be rejected as inconsistent with the inscriptions and the 

 * Ante Vol. XXX, p. 11. 



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