144 On the Sena Edjds of Bengal. [No. 3, 



In that Sena family was born Samanta Sena, the destroyer of hundreds 

 of the enemy's champions. He was a worshipper of Brahma and a 

 garland for the head of the race of the noblest Kshetriyas ; and verses 

 celebrating his heroic deeds were sung by the celestial maidens on the 

 border of the dam cooled by the agitated waves of the ocean, in a manner 

 which might even excite the envy of Rama, the son of Dasharatha. 



He did in the field of battle play with his hands his serpent-like 

 swords, where the noise of his battle-drums depressed the spirit of his 

 enemies, and the pearls which fell from the globe over the head of his 

 enemies' elephants, unseamed by his sword, are still to be found scat- 

 tered in the shape of heavy kouries. 



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His fame mounting the backs of his enemies' Avives, did travel 

 from house to house, from city to city, from forest to forest, from 

 mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean. 



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He did extirpate the enemies who plundered the riches of the Carnatic, 

 and the marrow, flesh and bones, (of the dead bodies of his enemies' 

 troops) to be found in abundance there, has caused Yama not to leave 

 the southern quarters up to the present time, becoming himself gladly 

 an inhabitant of the place. 



[Yama is lord of the Pretas, a kind of evil spirits or demons, who 

 live upon human flesh and blood.] 



