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[NV.S.] 
account of the Muhammadan conquest of Bengal! would have 
een the siege and reduction of Gauda or Gaur, but this point 
was passed over in silence. The conqueror Muhammad-i-Bakh- 
tiyar Khilji is generally taken by the later Muhammadan 
on to be the General of Qutbuddin Aibak. Thus we 
ave :— 
‘*The Sultan was overwhelmed with astonishment 
to see this and nominated and appointed him ruler of the 
whole country of Lakhnauti in Bengala and sent him away.’’ * 
II. ‘*And the Kingdom of Bengal as an adjunct of the 
Empire of Delhi was left in the hands of Qutbuddin. Sultan 
Qutbuddin entrusted to Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Muhammad-i- 
Bakhtiyar Khiliji the Viceroyalty of the Provinces of Bihar 
228 ‘ 
booter. He had no connection either with the kings of Ghur 
or his Viceroy in India. 
In April 1911 aninscription of the time of Laksmanasena- 
deva was discovered on the base of an image of the goddess 
Candi at Dalbazar in the town of Dacca. There is an old ghat 
i, which is built entirely of 
a small modern brickbuilt shrine containing a linga and two 
images of stone, one of Candi and the other of Visnu. It 
1 Tabagat i-Nasiri (Raverty’s Trans ), pp. 572-73. ; 
Vl 2 Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh (Trans. by Ranking in the Bib. Ind.), 
ol. I, pp. 82-83. ; - 
8 Riyazu-s-Salatin (Trans. by Maulavi Abdus Salam in the Bib. 
Ind.), p 59. 
