128 On the Sena Rajas of Bengal. [No. 38, « 
On the Sena Rajas of Bengal as commemorated in an Inscription from 
Rajshahi, decyphered and translated by C.- T. Murcarrz, Lsq., 
C. S.— By Babu RAsenprausta Mrrra. 
{Received 5th July, 1865. Read 5th July, 1865. ] 
Subjoined are the text and translation of a Sanskrit inscription of 
some interest lately found in a part of Rajshahi called the “ Burrin,”’ 
close by the village of Deopdrah, Thinnah Godigdri. Mr. C. T. Met- 
calfe, to whom the Society is indebted for the original and the transla- 
tion, gives the following account of the place where the monument 
was found. “The tank where I found it,” he says, “is some 40 
miles from Goa (Gour?); but it stands on the bank of a river which 
was the old Pudda bed, and which river now flows 6 miles to the 
south, before Rampur Bauleah. The locality is evidently the site of 
some temple, and the stone records, I should say the inscription, the 
praises of the founder. While making some further examinations 
I came to the top of a series of black stone-steps leading underground ; 
one monster stone was 1 yard in thickness. In the tank itself are 
2 slabs which can be felt with a bamboo and which, a hoary-headed 
old man says, were above ground when he was a chokra (boy) and kept 
the village cattle, 2. e. some 60 years ago.” The place was of some 
distinction, even during the Mahomedan period, for there still stands 
a magnificent masjid about 650 years old. Mr. Metcalfe describes it 
as “built entirely of stone without a bit of mortar, and put together 
like a child’s toy-house, the stones fitting the one into the other. 
The carving on it is beautiful.” 
The stone slab upon which the inscription is recorded, was found in 
a dense jungle apparently away from its original position, but amidst 
a number of large blocks of stone half buried under the earth. It — 
measures 3 ft. 2 inches by 1 ft. 93. Its material is basalt carefully — 
polished on the upper surface. 
The letters of the inscription are of the Tirhoot or Gour type, simi- 
lar to that of the Bakerganj plate of Kesava Sena, decyphered by 
James Prinsep. Bengali MSS. three centuries old, are written in 
very much the same characters, and the facsimile of the Yaynadatia- 
badha published by Chezy, bears some resemblance to it. It is im fact 

