206 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
with an interesting commentary by James Darmesteter in the 
Journal Asiatique for Février-Mars, 1890 (pp. 195-230), and 
some of its obscurities and difficulties were — elucidated 
by Mr. Beames in his article on the ‘ Geogra of the Qan- 
dabat Inscription’ in J.R.A.S., 1898 (pp. 795- 302).! In this 
contemporary epigraph, we have,—if the eye-copy made for 
Darmesteter by Mirza Mahatma Taqi can be relied on— 
aliéiy 9) 5$ as if they were separate places. 
We read :— 
Seb F ty whe ey aybt st psalials oJyo 9 JUS oye 
poh g IG alSis yy 9F 4 ali pgs [Jade 5 amyal » cudL yw ode 5! of 
lS 51 ot Gaye 9 a9 us? Bl) Alleys p53 Wl cslwo aS 50 ye y srt 
# Salo, prime OSL gy atle wahSs Gr yF af sty 9 Wd Sayan |F yao y 
Journal Asiatique, 1890, p. 205. 
M. Darmesteter’s translation of this is as follows :— 
‘Mais la fortune et la prospérité de l Empereur reduisi- 
rent la plupart des pays formant le quart habité de la terre 
mité du Dekan et de Berar, ce qui fait 4 peu prés une demi- 
année de marche.” (Jbid., 219-220, 
Lakhnauti or Gaur had been the capital of Bengal in 
Hind times as well as during the period in which it was ruled 
by Viceroys of the Dehli Sultans. Shamsu- din Iliyas Shah 
removed the headquarters to Firiizabad or Pandua, 20 miles 
distant, about 1353 A.C. Jalal-ud-din pe Shah revert - 
ed to Gaur about s seventy years later. “ After the conquest of 
Bengal by Sher Shah in 1539, the seat of government was again 
removed to Tanta or Tanda, a few miles south-west of Gaur 
weve , and shortly afterwards, Gaur was depopulated by 
pestilence, when Munim Khan after defeating Datd Shah.. 
ies) here with his: wiied during the mee season of 1575 
Banged to Luhree EVES (Tatta) and on Kabool and ‘Gitte to the 
south. In four years this was finished, 
and many went to see it.” A His istory A ‘scm Trans. G. G. Malet, p. 89. 
a an noes by F 
origins nerd? will be found in Dasaisgihee loc. SS : 
note. 
ere is an older tecaacnee and translation of the inscription in 
Mohan Lal’s ‘* Journal of a Tour t h anja ani 
3 also a brief notice of the Sega in Bellew’s ** Journal of a Poli- 
253. 
tical Midsioa to Afghanistan in 1857,” 
