The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.35

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The dominions acquired by Vijayasena were transmitted (*c.* A. D. 1108) to his son Vallālasena, famous in Bengal tradition as Ballāl Sen, who is credited with having reorganized the caste system and introduced the practice of 'Kulinism' among Brahmans, Baidyas, and Kāyasths. Some accounts allege that he founded Gaur or Lakhnautī, but there is reason to believe that the city was in existence at an earlier date. The site of a palace attributed to him is pointed out at Rāmpāl near Bikrampur in the Dacca District.¹ All the Sena kings were Brahmanical Hindus, and so had a special reason for hostility to the Buddhist Pālas, and a keen interest in the maintenance of caste. The Hinduism of Ballāl Sen was of the Tantric kind. The Brahman genealogists assert that he sent numerous missionaries, all Brahmans, to Magadha, Bhotan, Chittagong, Arakan, Orissa, and Nepāl.²