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² See ‘Earliest Seat of the Senas’ by S. Kumar (*Ind. Ant.*, Dec. 1915, p. 270 ff.), and also by the same author, ‘The Inscriptions of Asokashalla’ (ibid., p. 215). It is not easy to see how Kāśīpurī could become Kāsiārī. An alternative synonymous name, Kāśīwārī, may have existed. ‘The Senas, who replaced the Pālas in the twelfth century, are believed on acquiring Varendra, to have made their capital at Bijayanagar near Godāgāri in the south-west of the tract, and to have subsequently moved to Lakshmaṇāvatī, the town which afterwards took the name of Gauḍa’ (*J. R. A. S.*, 1914, p. 101). Varendra, also spelt Varendrī, the modern Barind, may be defined as 'comprising the Districts of Rājshāhi, Māldā, Dinājpur, Rangpur, Bogra, and part of Pabna—in fact almost the whole of the Rājshāhi Division' (*Ep. Ind.*, xiii (1916), p. 285). Godāgāri is a busy mart on the Ganges, where the Calcutta and Mālda road crosses the river. Gauḍa is the Sanskrit way of writing Gaur.