Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c26.39

c26.39

How the learned Babu came to the conclusion that the year A.D. 1106 was the beginning of Lakshmana Sena’s reign I cannot even guess. He himself publishes the notice that the *Dâna-Sâgara* was written in Saka 1019, A.D. 1097, by Halâyudha, the spiritual adviser of Lakshmana Sena. This alone is sufficient to establish the fact that Lakshmana Sena was reigning at least nine years before the adoption of his era. But there is another fact recorded by one of the earliest Muhammadan historians, Minhaj-us-Siraj, which points very clearly to an earlier period for the reign of Lakshmana Sena. This is the statement that Lakshmaniya, the last Hindu king of Gaur, had reigned for 80 years previous to the conquest of Bengal by Bakhtiyar Khalji in A.D. 1195.