1920.] Numismatic SupplementgNo. XXXIV. 215 
from an imperfect text. In the better and fuller recension 
which he himself afterwards edited, and of which the ioe 
Lithograph is an inexpensive reproduction, we are expressl 
told that Babur visited the tomb of Shaikh Yahya, the father 
of Shaikh ome which is at Maner, and gave away great sums 
in alms ther 
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Now, Maner is only 10 miles distant from Dinapore Can- 
sispidirati (Imp. Gaz., XVII, 175), which is itself so close to Patna 
city that Dinapore, Bankipore and Patna are ‘“ regarded 
aS one continuous narrow city hemmed in between the Giiic 
and the railway.” (Lbid., XI, 355.) It would appear then 
that the Imperial armies not only es mee seized Bihar, 
but that Babur himself was for a tim the immediate 
neighbourhood of Patna, if not in Patna itself. : 
Two other relevant facts may be also mentioned. There 
is in the Baburnama or Wagq‘iat- Baburi (Memoirs of Babur), a 
detailed statement of the revenues of “the countries from 
Bhera to Bihar ’’ which had “ submitted in a short time to his 
victorious standards.” About twenty-five tener are enu- 
merated, but there is no reference whatever to Sin pper or 
Lower. At the same time, the income from Bihar is given as 
4,05,60,000 Tankas (E.D., IV, 262; Thomas, Chronicles., 
390-1 ; A. 8. Beveridge, Memoirs of Babur, 521 -2 ; Erskine, , 
History vi Baber and Humayun, J, 540- 543). 
Secondly, there is, in the Fathnama or ‘ Letter of Victory ’ 
which was: issued in the Emperor’ s own name after the battle 
riefly, we have the conqueror’s own word for the fact 
1TI have ee Bao de lcs citing the summaries of Abil Fazl 
and Fi Irishta. Babur nt of the second Eastern campaign 
1s Memoirs, and is too long to quote in in ‘he references to the 
settlement of Bihar will be my wan at pp. 601, 662, 676 and 679. Sed visit 
the cea of Shaikh Yahy& of Maner is — nti = on p. his 
Bengal campaign is also described in Mr. te 8 nape 
190- 192, and Elphinstone’s ieee of India, a Cowel é. 
a now a pargana in Ballia district, United Provinces, and 
lay formneely Gis boll kui of the Ghogri. A. 8. Beveridge Op. cit., 664 
note apie is a town in t rah Subdivision of Shahabad district, 
Bengal. Imp. Gaz., VI, 5 and VIII, 173. Sikandarpar isin Bansdih tahsil, 
Ballia Alawet (Ibid, XXII, 362.) 
