446 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913. 
It had become the capital of Bengal after Gaur, and was a 
favourite residence of the Moghul Governors of Bengal until 
the middle of the XVIIth century. 
3. There is no difficulty to admit that the Bhiiya of 
Orissa had his capital at Cuttack. In Bruton’s time (1632) 
the Nawab of Orissa lived at Cuttack. 
Between 1628 and 1640 there was a Bhiliya at Hijili, 
whom Manrique styles the Masandolim, under which, we recog- 
nize again the sonorous title of Masnad-i-‘Ali. In 1697 the 
Governor of Higli was appointed to Hijili. Cf. C. R. Wizson, 
Old Fort William in Bengal, I, 22. 
5 e trouble which Manrique must have taken to get 
at the names of the Twelve Bhiiiyas and his researches among 
the revenue papers of Rajmahal, Multan and Kandahar (p. 
409, col. 2) are a guarantee of his correctness about the Bh tiya 
of Midnapore. 
- Dr. Wise’s objections to Manrique’s list appear to rest 
on the supposition that Bhati, the country where the Barah 
Bhiiyas ruled, was ‘‘ the lowland subject to the influx of the 
tide.’” Cf. Buocamann, Contributions to the Geogr. and Hist. 
of Bengal, p.18. Col. Jarrett described it similarly as ‘‘ the 
coast-strip of the Sunderbuns from Hijli to the Meghna.’’ Cf. 
Ain, II, 116, n. 3. Indeed, Abul Fazl has puzzled all his 
extremities of the hills of Tibet.’ Cf. Exxiorr, Hist. of India, 
VI. 72-73, and H. BEVERIDGE, J.A.S.B., 1904, p. 58 
Bhati given by Abul Fazl, viz., “South Tanda,’’ may be @ 
mistake for Landa which in the Riyazu-s-Salatin is given as 
one of the boundaries of Orissa, I do not, however, know 
what place is meant by the author of the Riyaz. The passage 
i 
as Jasur (the MSS. do not agree), and Professor Dowson has 
rendered this as Jessore (Extiorr, VI. 73). But Abul Fazl calls 
a Sarkar in his time, 
Pargana. I therefore believe that the boundary meant is 
