The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c32.42

c32.42

It is difficult to interpret the account of 'the four Senas' by Tāranāth (Schiefner, pp. 252–7). He gives the names of the kings as (1) Lavasena, (2) Kāśasena, (3) Maṇitasena, (4) Rāthikasena; observing that although he was unable to fix the duration of each reign, all four together ruled for not more than about eighty years. His account of the Turushka king Chandra, who conquered all Magadha, destroyed Vikramaśīla, and slew many clergy in Otantapurī (Bihār town), seems intended to describe the raid of Muhammad the son of Bakhtyār, but why that personage should be described as Chandra I cannot say. He proceeds (p. 256) to enumerate the later Senas, viz. (1) Lavasena II, (2) Buddhasena, (3) Haritasena, and (4) Pratītasena, princes of small power, subordinate to the Turushkas or Muhammadans.