Indian Epigraphy c15.t11.14

c15.t11.14

About the beginning of an excellent survey of the problem of the Lakṣmaṇasena era, R.C. Majumdar observes, ‘The first point to remember is that no Sena king, not even the two sons of Lakṣmaṇasena, ever used the era, and that there is no evidence that it was ever known, far less used, in Bengal during the Sena period......... This raises grave doubts about the foundation of the era by Lakṣmaṇasena or any other Sena ruler of Bengal.”¹ On the same grounds, H. C. Raychaudhuri² proposed to identify the founder of the era with some other ruler bearing that name and conjectured the existence of a Lakṣmaṇasena among the ruling chiefs of the Sena dynasty of Piṭhī.³ But the tradition referring to the founder of the era as an imperial ruler of Gauḍa undoubtedly points to his indentification with the only known Lakṣmaṇasena of East Indian history, viz. the Sena king of that name.