Son of the Ādipāda Kassapa, and therefore nephew of Sena I. On the death of his father, Sena became king as Sena II (851-85 A.C.) He married Saṅghā, daughter of Kittaggabodhi, and had a son, Kassapa. Sena sent an expeditionary force against the Paṇḍu king, captured Madhurā, and brought back the treasures which had been pillaged by the Paṇḍū in the time of Sena I. The Pamsukulika monks separated from the incumbents of Abhayagiri in the twentieth year of Sena’s reign. He built the Manimekhala dam and a dam across the Kanavāpi at Katthantanagara. He endowed various monasteries — Buddhagāma, Mahiyaṅgana, Kūtatissa, Mandalagiri, and Sobbha — and held a special ceremony in honour of the image of Ānanda. He held a consecration festival at the Hemavāluka-cetiya (Mahā Thūpa), and decreed that this festival should be repeated annually. His senāpati was Kutthaka. Cv.li.1 ff.