Vol. XI, Nos. 10 & 11.]. Mithila during Pre-Mughal Period. 413 
[N.S.]} 
The above story furnished the name of another king of 
this dynasty, Nrsimha. The name Nrsimha, too, appears in 
the traditional account of the Nepal inscription. He is named 
also in the Dana-paddhati where the author Ramadatta declares 
himself to be his mantri or minister.! Ramadatta was uncle’s 
son of Candesvara Thakkura and was therefore near in time to 
that author. Hence Ramadatta’s master Nrsimha must have 
been near in time to Candesvara’s master, the king Harasimha- 
deva, and very likely succeeded him. 
Tirhut appears again in the account of the first invasion of 
Bengal by the Delhi Sultan Firoz Shah. According to Barni 
the Sultan marched towards Lakhnauti through Gorakhpur, 
Kharosa, and Tirhut, the Rais of the first two tracts submit- 
ting and following him to Lakhnauti. Shams-i Siraj ’ Afif gives 
a little more details of this march. When the Sultan arrived 
on the banks of the Kosi (? Gandak) near its junction with 
the Ganges, he found the passage difficult and the enemy’s 
army posted in force on the opposite side (probably at Hajipir 
said to have beén founded by the then Bengal king Haji Ilyas 
Shah). So the Sultan marched up the river for 100 kos, and 
below Camparan where the river was found fordable, crossed it 
by a living bridge of elephants. Then via Camparan and Racap 
€ moved on towards Panduah. 
According to Barni, Firoz Shah left Delhi on 10th 
Shawwal 754 u, (8th November, 1354 a.p.) and returned to it 
arni’s Kharosa lying between Gorakhpur and Tirhut is 
probably to be identified with Campiran (Sansk. Campak- 
dranya) 
vat wey ata TACT Arras Fas 
gaat sama weasels: Joao [eli] 
2 Elliot, Vol. III, pp. 293-294. 
8 Bendall, J.A.S.B., 1903, p. 19. 
