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century, and he proved it by a quotation from the Samaya Prakds'a 

 which says that Raja Ballala Sena completed his work, the Dana- 

 bdgara, in the S'aka year 1019=A. D.1097, before which Ballala must 

 have lived for many years to compile so large a work. A copy of 

 the work has lately been found, and in its introduction the names of 

 Ballala's father and grandfather Vijaya and Hemanta have been met 

 with. Vira Sena, the Babu assumes to be the proper name of 

 A'dis'iira, the first prince of the Sena Dynasty, S'ura being a synonym 

 of Vira " a hero," and A'di indicative of his being the founder of the 

 family. His age, deduced by calculating the parydyas of the Kulina 

 Kayasthas, and by the usual average of 18 years to each reign, has 

 been ascertained to have been between 964 and 1000 A. D. Advert- 

 ing to the caste of the Sena Rajas, the Babu states that the popular 

 belief of their having been Yaidyas was unfounded and opposed to the 

 testimony of authentic records. The only two inscriptions of the Sena 

 Rajas which have been hitherto met with, describe them to have been 

 descendants of the Moon or Kshetriyas of the Lunar race. Halayudha, 

 who lived in the court of Lakshmana Sena and was his chief law officer 

 or Lord Chancellor — DharmMhyaksha, states that he was a Kshetriya, 

 and Kulacharya Thakura, who lived about the end of the 15th century, 

 calls Adis'ura the "sun of the Kshetriya race" Kshetriya vansa hansa 

 The Babu therefore takes them to have been Kshetriyas, and accounts 

 for their having been called Yaidyas by supposing that they must have 

 belonged to that branch of the Kshetriyas called Ambashthas (the 

 a^pd^rai of Ptolemy) and were in later days confounded with the 

 mixed caste of Ambashthas or Vaidyas. Abul Fazel and Pere Tieff en- 

 thaler say that the Senas belonged to the Kaeth caste which is, 

 according to the Babu, not remarkable, for the Kayasthas have, from 

 their first advent in Bengal, more than once put forth their claim to 

 be reckoned as Kshetriyas. 



4. From Babu Chunder Sikar Chatterjea, through the Surveyor- 

 General of India, Note on a Whirlwind at Pundooah. 



The following letter accompanied the communication. 



" I beg to enclose herewith a copy of a sketch and report sent at my 

 request by Mr. Thompson's Sircar, Babu Chunder Sikur Chatterjee, 

 of a small cyclone that occurred about three weeks ago near Pundooah, 

 I thought it would be interesting, as we seldom have an opportunity 



