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account of its central position with respect to that province 
and to Bihar; and because it commanded the Ganges and the 
pass of Teliagarhi.” (Zbid., XX1, 78.) 
Turning to the Moagiru-l-Umara, we find its author 
in A.H. 1000, The author then goes on to say that in the 39th 
year, 1002 A.H., Man Singh was sent to govern Bengal and 
1 It should be noted that Tanda and not Gaur was the capital 
Bengal even when Mun‘im Khan first took charge of the province. 
of 
KX} Abal 
Fazl says that ‘‘he made habitable the city of Gaur which formerly 
mi 
was the capital,’ for this reason ‘* that the army be near 
Ghoraghat which was a fo tain edition, an ht entirely 
p c tion there, and also that he might restore this 
delightful place which had fort and magnificent buildings 
e not notice that the atmosphere of the place had acquired poison 
ous qualities 1 nsequen f the vicissitudes of ti f ay 
of buildings, especially at the time of the end of the s.’ ridge, 
n: Fi ors izamuddin Ahmad informs us that ‘‘ the 
air of G as extremely unhealthy, and in former times, the many dis 
the rulers to abandon the 
ea gle i 
Summary of the Khirshid-i-Jahan-numa in J.A.S.B. , p. 216. 
It may be also noted that after this ‘ final depopulation ” of 1575 
A.C., Gaur is aot at all mentioned in the Ak rnama, and is incidentally 
referred t once in the histories of Nizamud 
to bu t din Ahmad (Lakhnau 
Lithograph, 345; Elliot and Dowson, V, 415) and I 
Badaont, (Bibl. Ind. 
ro 
only for a time, in t unt of Mir Jumla’s campaign against 
Aurangzeb’s brother, Shah Shuj&‘a. (‘Alamgirnama, 461, 476, 483, 553 ; 
557 ; Maaisr-i- Alamgiri, 26, 29; Khafi Khan, II, 98, 99). 
