Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.327

c7.327

To approximately the same epoch as that of Lakṣmīdhara, belongs Halāyudha², the author of the recently published Brāhmaṇasarvasva about the daily duties of the Brahmans, etc., which is assiduously quoted specially by Bengali authors. Halāyudha was the chief justice (*dharmādhikārin, dharmādhyakṣa*) of the famous king Lakṣmaṇasena of Bengal who ascended the throne in 1119.¹ The father of this king was Ballālasena, and the same name happens to be the designation of the author of the Dānasāgara about religious gifts, which according to the introduction in the I. O. Ms. 1704 was composed by Ballālasena, the son of Vijayasena and the grandson of Hemantasena with the help of Aniruddha in the year 1169 (Śaka 1091)². There is no doubt about the correct reading of this date also expressed in words by Aufrecht and Eggeling but from inner reasons it is more probable that it should be read Śaka 1019= 1097 A. D. with R. Mitra according to another source.