The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.44

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The overthrow of the Sena dynasty was accomplished with equal or even greater ease. The ruler of eastern Bengal in those days was Lakshmanasena, described by the Muhammadan writer as an aged man and reputed, though erroneously, to have occupied the throne for eighty years. The portents which were said to have attended his birth had been justified by the monarch's exceptional personal qualities. His family, we are told, was respected by all the Rāis or chiefs of Hindustan, and he was considered to hold the rank of hereditary Khalīf (Caliph), or spiritual head of the country. Trustworthy persons affirmed that no one, great or small, ever suffered injustice at his hands, and his generosity was proverbial.