1865.] On the Sena Rajds of Bengal. 135 
the Sena dynasty was Lakhmaniy4, and this authority must be accepted 
as correct, as the work was written within fifty-eight years after 
the conquest of Bengal by Bakhtiar Khilijy, and its author had 
ample opportunities, during his sojourn in Bengal, of conversing 
_ with the contemporaries of Lakhmaniyé who had taken part in that 
conquest, and of collecting the most authentic information available in 
his time. The account given in that book is as follows :— 
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: Translation.—Contemporary historians, on whom be the blessings of 
¥ God, have thus related : ‘‘ That when the news of the valour and the wars 
q and subjugation of kingdoms by Mohammed Bakhtyar, may the mercy 
_ of God be on him, reached Lakhmaniy4, the capital of his kingdom 
was Nuddea. The Raya was very learned and had sat on the 
throne for 80 years. It will not be amiss to mention here an anecdote 
of the Raya which has come to my knowledge; it is this: When the 
| father of the Riya passed away from this world, Raya Lakhmaniya 
‘was in his mother’s womb. The crown was therefore placed on the 
‘Womb, and the officers of State all girt themselves and stood round 
and behind the mother. The family of this prince was known as the 
Raya of Rayas of Hind by the wise men of the time, and reckoned as 

