402 
Rajendralala Mitra —On the Tala 
[No. 4, 
In the whole of Bengal. 
IY.—Vigraha-pala, I, ... 
915 
IY.—Vijaya alias Sukha 
Sena, 
1046 
Y.—N arayana-pala, ... 
935 
Y.—Ballala Sena, . 
1066 
Yl.—Raja-pala, . 
955 
YI.—Lakshmana Sena, ... 
1106 
VII.-pala, . 
975 
VII.—IVladhava Sena,. 
1136 
VIII.—Yigraha-pala II, ... 
995 
VIII.—Kesava Sena,. 
1138 
IX.—Lakshmaneya alias 
Asoka Sena,. 
1142? 
IX.—Mahi-pala, . 
1015 
In Vikramjgur. 
to 
1040 
Ballala Sena, ..... ... 
X.—Naya-pala, . 
1040 
Su Sena,. 
to 
P 
• 
Sura Sena, &c., . 
In Behar. 
XI.—Vigraha-pala III and others. 
In my first paper on the subject I started the opinion that the Senas 
were Kshatriyas of the lunar race, and not Yaidyas as they are supposed to 
have been by the people of the present day. The opinion was founded upon 
the positive declaration of two inscriptions, and that of a work, the Ddna-sct- 
gara , written by Ballala himself. It has now the support of another 
inscription. In the Tarpandighi plate there occurs a verse which Mr. 
Westmacott thus renders into English : “ The kings of the race of Ausha- 
dhinatha (moon) neutralize the sharp fever-poison of their enemies by the 
lustre of the nails of their feet, as with the juice of the creepers nurtured 
(as plants with water) by the lustre of the diadems of numbers of kings, 
prostrate in homage.Exception, however, has been taken to the deduc¬ 
tion by some of my countrymen, mostly Yaidyas of the Sena family, who 
claim themselves to be of the royal race, and several Bengali books have been 
written to prove my error. My critics all labour under the mistake that 
I wanted to make the Sena kings members of the Kayastha caste, in order 
to glorify that caste, and enjoy the advantage of a ray of that glory, being 
myself a Kayastha ; but as I have nowhere said anything of the kind, I 
cannot but leave this part of their criticisms unnoticed. They have created 
their own Frankenstein, and I leave them to lay it in the best way they can. 
The chief arguments which they urge to controvert the statements of the 
inscriptions are—1st, that the statements may be due to poetical license, or a 
desire to eulogize the kings in an exaggerated style ; 2nd, that the reference to 
the moon, who is, according to the Puranic mythology, the lord of medicines, 
may be due to a desire to make an indirect allusion to the profession of the 
Yaidya caste ; 3rd, that others than Kshatriyas could call themselves descen¬ 
dants of the lunar race ; 4th, that Adisura, who is described as a descendant 
* Ante, XLIY, pt. I, p. 13. 
