130 On the Sena Rdjis of Bengal. [No. 3, 
Of the dedicator of the temple, Vijaya, the record is, as usual in such 
cases, the most lavish in its praise. According to it, he was the great- 
est of kings that ever held sway on earth; the most valiant, the most 
charitable, and the most virtuous. While describing the hero as a 
devout follower of Mahadeva, it does not hesitate to make him even 
superior to that dread manifestation of the divinity, for the one, says it, 
destroys all alike, while the other, killed his enemies and cherished 
his friends. There is, however, very little in the verses devoted to his 
glorification which may be taken for facts. The time of his reign is not 
given, nor the name of his caste, nor that of the place where he caused 
the temple to be erected. He is related to have invaded Assam 
(Kamartipa) and the Coromandel Coast between the Chilka Lake and 
Madras (Kalifiga), and to have sent a fleet of war-boats up the Ganges 
to conquer the Western kings; but nothing is said of the results of 
these invasions : the last is, ina manner, acknowledged to have proved 
a failure ; for the only thing noticeable in it, was the stranding of one 
of the boats on a sand-bank, poetically described as “the ashes on the 
forehead of S‘iva, changed to mud by contact with the water of the 
Ganges.” 
The genealogy of the king includes three names, those of Hemanta 
Sena, Sumanta Sena, and Vira Sena. The last was evidently the 
founder of the family, for he appears as a descendant of the moon, 
without any reference to his immediate progenitors. All the three were 
kings of Gour, but their names occur nowhere in history. Vijaya 
the last of the series was, according to tradition, known by the name 
of Sukha Sena, and under that name he occurs in the Ayin Akbary, as 
the father of Ballaéla Sena. His name occurs in the Bakerganj plate — 3 
as the first of a series of four kings, the last of which was Kesava — 
Sena. Vijaya there appears as the father of Ballala Sena. Again, in 
a manuscript of the Ddanasdgara, a treatise on gifts attributed to 
Ballala Sena, the author describes himself as the son of Vijaya Sena — 
and the grandson of Hemanta Sena. These facts justify the assump- 
tion that the three records allude to the same family, and that Sukha ~ 
Sena was an alias of Vijaya Sena. If this be admitted, the Sena 
dynasty of Bengal will have to be extended by the addition of the 
three names which occur in the inscription now under notice. 
Of the descendants of Vijaya, the most distinguished was, no doubt, 

