202 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
but Fathabad-Dakan (‘Alamgirnama, 565, 1. 9), Pattan-Gujrat 
(Beveridge, Akbarnama, Tr. III., 231, 267), Mu‘azzamabad- 
Awadh (Maasir-i- Alamgiri, 470), Qandahar-Dakan (‘Alamgir- 
nama, 566), Dewal-Sind (E.D.I., 375, Hobson-Jobson, 320), 
Rajmahal-Bangala (Khafi Khan, I. 468), Balaptr-Birar (Khafi 
Khan, I. 282) are examples of the second ; and lastly, Fathpir- 
Hanswa (A. 8. Beveridge, Memoirs of Babur, 651n), Firozpur- 
Jhirka (bid. 580 n), Hajipur-Patna (Khafi Khan, I. 183), Kar- 
rah-Manikpir (A. 8. Beveridge, Mem. of Babur, 544), Gujarat- 
Lahor (Khafi Khan, I. 252), and Pattan- -Ahmadabad (iid: 1), 
176) belong to the third. 
ese circumstances, a superficial inquirer or casual 
visitor from foreign parts is exceedingly liable, on hearing the 
compound name, to carry away erroneous notions as to the 
real mgmt cene: of the duplication, and we have ourselves to 
exer caution in accepting Stabationts emanating from 
ts a source. The conjoint name ‘ Gaur-Bangala’ does 
appear at first sight to mean ‘Gaur which is identical with 
Bangala,’ but then Abil Fazl gives chs latitude and longitude 
of ay 1,35, and Jarrett p crrente him to refer, no doubt, 
correctly, to‘ Pandua in Bengal’.'! (Ain. Tr. III., 59). Simi- 
larly, Khafi Khan speaks in one mie of ‘ Rajmahal-Bangala ’ 
(I. 468). It is obvious that Gaur as well as Pandua and Raj- 
mahal could not all have been denominated ‘ Bangala,’ and it is 
clear that ‘ Gaur-Bangala ’ implied, at times, nothing more than 
that Gaur was situated in the country or province of Bengal.” 
The matter is the more perplexing owing to the fact that 
several European travellers of the 16th and 17th centuries 
peak of a ‘ City of Bengala’. Duarte Barbosa (c. 1516 A.C.) 
tells us that at the head of the Gulf of Bengala was situated 
| In the very next line, the Bibliotheca Indica text has fai) sigh eS), 
(II. 33, col, a, 1. 2). Jarrett (Ain. Trans. ITI. 59) points out that cs is @ 
misreading of _¢i) and translates, ‘ Lakhnauti in Bengal.’ I need scarce- 
ly add that (5,ig6) is the same as 9 and £3) is synonymous with aig) 
Thus we have &€u | 944 ‘ Pandua Bangla’ in one line, and eas res 
nauti Bang,’ te. ‘Lakhnauti Bangala’ (otherwise ‘ Gaur-Ban- 
) in the next. The only consistent interpretation would seem to be, 
o 
2 So Blochmann writes: ‘‘In official documents, Bengal is often 
’ mentioned under the title of Jannat-ul-Bilad, or the Paradise of countries ; 
and Lak’hnauti was called J. annatabad-i-Bangalah or Paradise town, in op- 
position ws J a in the Dak’hin, which was called J annatabad-<- Dak - 
hin n Places of Histor ical Interest in the a of Hugli, 
Proceedings, Aaintis Society of Bengal, 1870, p. 110 and n 
* Iwas at one time not a little puzzled by Mr. Line Poole’ s state- 
