The one-volume edition of the Sena copper plates, the main documentary evidence for Bengal around 1200. It prints Lakshmanasena's grants (Anulia, Tarpandighi, Govindapur, Madhainagar, Sundarban), which give his regnal years, his ministers, the villages and districts he granted in western, northern and southern Bengal, and the titles he claimed in Kamarupa, Kalinga and Benares; and the plates of his sons Visvarupasena and Kesavasena, who kept the Sena kingdom in eastern Bengal after 1205. The dating of the Sena era and the length of Lakshmanasena's reign are argued in the introduction. These plates are the counterweight to Juzjani's story of the fall of Nadiya.
About this source
- Title
- Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3: the Chandra, Varman and Sena dynasties
- Author
- Various (the Sena kings' chanceries), edited by N. G. Majumdar
- Author's dates
- Majumdar 1897 to 1938
- Written
- copper plates of the 10th to early 13th centuries; edited 1929
- Language
- Sanskrit, with English translations
- Covers
- about 900 to 1230
- Kind
- Charters and cartularies
Vols. 1 and 2 of the series were never published. Some Sena plates found after 1929 are in Epigraphia Indica and the Journal of the Asiatic Society. The Deopara stone inscription of Vijayasena (Epigraphia Indica 1) gives the earlier Sena genealogy.
Where to read it
Editions
- N. G. Majumdar (ed.), Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3 (Rajshahi, Varendra Research Society, 1929)
- Another scan of the same volume