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[V.S.] 
Added to this, we have the authority of Manrique, whom 
his sojourn of a year at Higli, of about 6 years at Chittagong, 
and his travels in Orissa (1640), to Dacca, Gaur, and Rajmahal, 
had made acquainted with the whole tract over which the 
Bhiiyas ruled. The twelve Bhiliiyads, according to him, were 
those of: 1. Bengala; 2. Angelim [Hijili]; 3. Ourixa [Orissa]; 
4, Jassor (Jessore]; 5. Chandevan; 6. Midinimpur [Midnapore]; 
7. Catrabo [Katrabuh]; 8. Bacala [Bakla] ; 9. Solimanvas [Sulai- 
manibad]; 10. Bulvé; 11. Daca; 12. Rajamol [Rajmahal]. (Cf. 
Itinerario, 1649, p. 20, col. 2.) 
the twelve Boiones, and ave mentioned them too. The 
whole tract is most fertile. The largest towns are Daack, or 
Daca, Rajamol, or Ragmehel, Midinimpur, Burduan, Katra- 
bo, Cateca. Its most frequented barbours are Vgulim (Higli]. 
a Portuguese foundation, Piple in the Kingdom of Ourixa, and 
Balassor in the same Kingdom. It has other harbours; but, 
being less frequented, they are less known. All these lands are 
limited to the south by the Gangetic strait, into which by 
four vast mouths the Ganges discharges its voluminous, rapid 
and wholesome waters.’’ 
after Sulaiman Shah of Bengal, and he suggests that the name 
i j ars 
son, Prince Selim, afterwards known as Prince Jahangir. i 
Beveridge, The District of Bakargan), pp. 118-119 
“¢In the Introduction to a Samskrt dictionary, the author 
gives the following genealogy of his patron: Muchha or Murch- 
4 Khan: son of ‘Isa Khan, son of ’Silamana Khan. (Note by 
& —_— a . e . 
Babi Manmohan Chakravarti.) From the proximity of Soli- 
of the tain of the 
lao. Cf. Index, p. 762. 
