SENA, a dynasty of kings who ruled in Eastern and Deltaic Bengal, and afterward in all Bengal, from A.D. 986 to 1142. They were of the Hindu faith. Adisur was the founder of the Sen dynasty ; he brdught from Kanouj five Sagnic Brahmans, of the tribesor gotra Sanhila, Kash yapa, Vatsa, Saverna, and Bharadwaja ; also five Sudra families, Ghose, Bhose, Dutt, Guha, and Mittra, accompanied them, and these take the position of Kulin Kayasths. In the reign of Bullal Sen, about 284 years befor)e, the Muham madan invasion, all these Kulin Brahmans and Kulin Sudras had greatly increaseit'andlislial Sen ennobled these Brahmans by giving to tubm the title of Kulin, and though degenerated in learning they arrogated to themselves a position above all the Sapta.sali or prior Brahmans. The Kulin Brahmans subsequently consented to marry ' the daughters of the aboriginal Brahmans, who now eagerly seek alliances with the Kau, and the Kulin have taken advantage of this, and have established a scale of premiums for condescending to accept a daughter of an inferior. They marry
gold. Of the Kayasths who came from Kanouj, Bhose, Ghose, and Matra were ennobled by Bullal Sen into Kuhn Kayasths. Das, Day, Dutt, Guha, Kar, Paulit, Sett, and Sing hold a second rank. Kulin Brahman women are married with diffi culty, and generally to aged men. In A.D. 1868, there were 11 Kuhns in Hoogly and 1 in Bard wan, each of whom had contracted 50 to 80 marriages ; 24 in Hoogly and 12 in Bardwan, who had contracted from 20 to 50 marriages ; and 48 in Hoogly and 20 in Bardwan, who had con tracted between 10 and 20 marriages. Kulinisrn is thus a great polygamie institution, and a few women have become prostitutes. In A.D. 1867, the abolition of this polygamy was contemplated, aud will doubtless some day be carried out.— Calcutta 1?eview, May 1868.