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of Benares,”¹ and so also do several other authorities cited above, and Merutunga in his *Prabandhacintāmaṇi*.² The Bakerganj inscription of Keśavasena³ and the Madhianagar grant,⁴ on the other hand, claim that Lakṣamaṇasena, who has been identified with the Rai Lakhmaniyā of the Moslem writers, and who was thus the Sena contemporary of Jayacandra, erected many “pillars of victories” in Benares and Allahabad. But in view of the position of Benares in the Gāhaḍavāla realm, and Lakṣamaṇasena’s craven flight without offering any resistance to the small force led by Bakhtyar Khilji, we may unhesitatingly say that “the monuments of his greatness never existed elsewhere than in the poet’s imagination.”