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route from the Malaya Hills to Bengal not omitting to lavish
his poetic skill on the description of notable objects to be met
with in almost all places between Malaya and Bengal. He des-
cribes at length the capital Vijayapara of Lakṣmaṇa-
sena at whose court the wind is requested to go. Then he
devotes a good number of verses to the delineation of the love-
stricken condition fo Kuvalayavati-though it is in a more or
less conventional way.
Historical basis of the Pavanadüta :-
The Pavanaduta refers to the mission of 'world conquest'
or digvijaya of King Lakṣmaṇasena. (v. 3). The king-is
represented as having gone to the south on the above mission
and have conquered kings of the Deccan (dākṣiṇātyān
Kṣitis'an). We further learn from it that he had marched
as far south as the Malaya range. The question, therefore,
naturally arises how far this information is historically
true. Is it wholly a product of the fertile imagination of
the poet who was actuated by a motive of elulogising his
patron by way of associating with him various heroic deeds-
both historical and imaginary ; or has it some sort of
historical back-ground behind it?
Epigraphic records so far obtained of the Sena kings,
however, do not supply as with any account of a digvijaya
undertaken by king Laks naṇasena. But from scatterred
passages in different copperplates we are in a position to
determine how far the great monarch of Bengal carried
his arms. A passage in the Madhainagara copperplate of
Lakṣmaṇasena runs
I.
ve alonâfa: afaşıyaıfu:
J. A. S. B.-N. S- Vol V. p 473.
route from the Malaya Hills to Bengal not omitting to lavish
his poetic skill on the description of notable objects to be met
with in almost all places between Malaya and Bengal. He des-
cribes at length the capital Vijayapara of Lakṣmaṇa-
sena at whose court the wind is requested to go. Then he
devotes a good number of verses to the delineation of the love-
stricken condition fo Kuvalayavati-though it is in a more or
less conventional way.
Historical basis of the Pavanadüta :-
The Pavanaduta refers to the mission of 'world conquest'
or digvijaya of King Lakṣmaṇasena. (v. 3). The king-is
represented as having gone to the south on the above mission
and have conquered kings of the Deccan (dākṣiṇātyān
Kṣitis'an). We further learn from it that he had marched
as far south as the Malaya range. The question, therefore,
naturally arises how far this information is historically
true. Is it wholly a product of the fertile imagination of
the poet who was actuated by a motive of elulogising his
patron by way of associating with him various heroic deeds-
both historical and imaginary ; or has it some sort of
historical back-ground behind it?
Epigraphic records so far obtained of the Sena kings,
however, do not supply as with any account of a digvijaya
undertaken by king Laks naṇasena. But from scatterred
passages in different copperplates we are in a position to
determine how far the great monarch of Bengal carried
his arms. A passage in the Madhainagara copperplate of
Lakṣmaṇasena runs
I.
ve alonâfa: afaşıyaıfu:
J. A. S. B.-N. S- Vol V. p 473.