India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.16

c8.s15.t1.16

(10) Names ending in *sena* (VIII.3.99). Pāṇini refers to *senānta* names in *sūtra*, IV.1.152 (*Senānta-lakshaṇa-kāribhyaścha*). Famous examples of such names in the lists of Vedic teachers are Yājñasena (*Taitt. S.* V.38.1; *Kāṭhaka. S.* XXI.4) or Yājñasena¹ and Ṛishṭisheṇa (*Nirukta*, II.11); Patañjali adds Jātasena as the name of a Ṛishi. As ancient examples of such names among Kshattriyas, Patañjali points out Ugrasena Andhaka, Vishvaksena Vṛishṇi and Bhīmasena Kuru. They become common in the post-Pāṇinian times, *e.g.* Vārisheṇa and Harisheṇa in Patañjali (*loc. cit.*); Sotthisena (*Jāt.* V.88, Skt. Svastisena), Sūrasena (*Jāt.* VI.280), Ugrasena (Uggasena king of Banaras, IV.458), Upasena (*Jāt.* II.449), Atthisena (*Jāt.* III.352), Nandisena (minister of Assakarāja, *Jāt.* III.3), Jayasena (*Jāt. Nidāna*, p. 41), Chandasena (*Jāt.* VI.157) and Bhaddasena (*Jāt.* VI.134) in the Jātakas. Also Dhamasena, Varasena at Sanchi; Nāgasena (Lüder's *List*, 719), Mahendasena (Lüder's *List*, 850) at Bharhut; and Asāḍasena from Pabhosā.