138 On the Sena Rdjds of Bengal. [No. 3, 
subsequently he was raised to the office of the Lord Chancellor 
Dharmadhikdva.* This is not practicable within the space of eight 
years, and I feel no hesitation in assigning to him two and a half times 
that number of years ; the remaining three years being left for Madhava 
and Kesava and possibly for Su or Sura Sena should a prince of that 
name be hereafter verified. For the present I am disposed to throw out 
a hint that Su Stra Noujeb and As’oka were probably the proper name 
and aliases of the prince whose patronymic was Lakhmaniya. Prinsep, 
following the Ayin Akbary, takes 1136 to be the date of the Bakerganj 
plate, but as that authority makes Lakhmaniy4 begin his reign in the 
year 1200 A.D. and fly to Orissa three years after, when Minhajuddin, 
who had ample opportunities of conversing with the contemporaries of 
Lakshmana, and was himself in Bengal a few years after his overthrow, 
assures us that that prince reigned for 80 years, we may without com- 
punction reject its evidence as unworthy of belief. The ancestors of 
Ballila from Hemanta to Vira Sena were hitherto unknown to history, 
and even now the inscription under notice does not name the time when 
they flourished. The final settlement of their dates must, therefore, be 
left for future research. If we assign to them the usual Indian average 
of 18 years to a reign, the Sena dynasty may be arranged as follows :— 
* For those who may be curious on the subject I quote a few stanzas from the 
Bréhmana Sarvasva. 4 
aaa Tal yaaweltad Paar frararaad SATAY | 
aml Tan fafaaeews referees faut ll 
BH HA VATA gIag: BRaewBragqa- 
tea waar fase FAS IAT ABTTTAAT | 
WRAG RUST AVIASE WAC Vaima- 
afa wufaaaae aaa fates siarita i 
gatetad 4 fara aeC wawgarat Paar 
FASTA HAA anya arated asa | 
a: 9 faaamaR “afeat Raw u: wr fa- 
wat ae wala yay Ceca BTS: Il 
arg Qilwatisagfwaqe: santa aaq- 
RAT TAA ETA TTY IS Zeal aa Araz | 
aa Samii afes VAi TTATTIA: 
Fale MAUS AS ceVylasa/ wart er | 

