The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.34

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But Sāmantasena's grandson, Vijayasena, certainly raised himself to the rank of an independent sovereign in the latter part of the eleventh or early in the twelfth century, and wrested a large part of the Bengal province from the Pālas, thus firmly establishing the Sena dynasty. He also carried on successful wars with other powers, and enjoyed a long reign of about forty years, more or less. He kept on terms of friendship with Choraganga of Kalinga, who ruled that kingdom for the extraordinary term of seventy-one years, and who about the time of the Chāsi-Kaivarta rebellion (*c.* A. D. 1080) extended his conquests to the extreme north of Orissa.