132 On the Sena Rdjds of Bengal. [No. 3, 
however, better known in this country by the system of hereditary 
nobility which he established in his court than by his devotion to 
letters. The main object of that system was to give preéminence to 
wrara <fa areata: | Ibd. 20—3. The work is divided into 70 Sections 
and devoted to a description of 1375 gifts, the mode of consecrating them, the pro- 
per persons to give them to, the time meet for making such gifts, &e. &e. The 
author enumerates in his introduction the different authorities he had consulted 
in compiling his work, and as his list gives an idea of the works which were 
reckoned as standard authorities in his time, 9 hundred years ago, I quote it 
entire. 
Purdnas. Vishnu-dharma. Yama. 
Brahma. Gopatha Brahmana. Yogayajnavalkya. 
Varaha. Ramayana. Deyvala. 
Agni, Mahabharata, Baudhayana. 
Bhavishya. Manu. Angirasa. 
Matsya. Vasishtha. Danavyasa. 
Kurma. Samvarta. Vrihaspati ? ? 
Adya. Yajnavalkya, Sankha. 
Upapurdna. Gotama. Likhita. 
Adya, Katyayana, Apastamba. 
Samba. Yavala. Satyayana, 
Kalika, Sandana. Maha Vyasa. 
Nandi. Vrihaspati. Laghu Vyasa. 
Aditya. Vrihad Vasishtha. Laghu Harita. 
Narasiniha, Harita. Chhandoga perisishta, 
Markandeya. Pulasta. 
Vishnudharmottara. Vishnu. 
S’astras. Satatapa, 
S‘lokas are often repeated by panditas, which tradition ascribes to this 
prince. It is said that once when his son Lakshmana was long absent from 
home, his daughter-in-law brought the circumstance to his notice by writing the 
following s‘loka on the wall before the place where he used to dine :-— 
udafatad afc cates fufaat Hat | 
WY AA: Hara at Saar afcate 
*‘The clouds are pouring without intermission and the peacocks are dancing 
with joy ; on such a day death or my darling alone can remove my suffering.” 
Touched by it he invited his son back to his home with the following stanza :— 
aaa CNRARA Barat eafaar fasra 
iN ~ ~ 
aqwaqenaa featafagaiewaat | 
VI yEl eaagHE feat yauatatsrat 
~ iS 3 ~ Ke ee 
IIATUSRIS A TVA SAT Salat Wa i 
“O thou who art disposed as the second (the Bull—listen).’’ Alone and op- 
pressed is she with the breasts like the eleventh (pitchers-globes) of the elephant, 
by the approach of him who has the tenth (Makara on his flag Cupid), even as are 
the twelfth (fishes) and the fourth (crabs), on the approach of the shark (maka- 
ra). That sixth (virgo), with eyebrows without compare, (lit. devoid of the seventh 
libra), who should belong to the royal fifth (lion-prince is suffering from the pangs 
of the eighth (scorpio), O, first (aries—my son) hasten and be thou the third 

