21. Notes on Gaur and other old Places in Bengal. 
By Monmonan Caaxravarti, M.A., B.L., M.R.A.S. 
In the annals of old Bengal Gaur and the tract round it 
played an exceedingly important part. This tract, in which lay 
Laksmanavati and Devi-kot of the Hindu period, as well as the 
five capitals of Bengal in the Musalman period, to wit, Lakha- 
nawati (Lakhnauti or Gaur of_the later times), Pandua (or 
political and geographical changes of this locality, and inciden- 
tally discusses a number of doubtful or unsettled problems in the 
Musalman history of Bengal. For facility of reference a sketch 
map of the tract, prepared from Rennell’s Atlas, plates ii, ix, 
ig xvii, is attached. The Atlas is based on the earliest 
British surveys in Bengal (1765—75 A.D.), and furnishes the 
only old maps giving fairly trustworthy details of the mofussil. 
LAKSMANAVATI OR GAUR. 
Its remains may be chronologically distributed under the 
Gaur Remains. following heads :— 
i.—The Hindu capital ; : 
iiiThe early Musalman capital, from the time of 
iiii—The later Musalman capital, about 
(1456—1564 A.D.), a period of nearly a, century 
and a decade. ‘ 
iv.—Temporary Mughal occupations, as head-quarter Dy 
Munim Khan during @ few months of 983 H. 
(1575 A.D.), and as subsidiary tothe capital in 
the second viceroyalty of the prince Shah Shuj‘a, 
1059-1069 H. (1649—1658 A.D.). 
I. Tae Hipvu Caritat. 
I adduced some evidence that in- 
ated the existence of Laksmanavatl 
oem as capital of Gaur from at least the 
eighth century A.D.! No authentic remains of this period 
In a previous article, 
dic 
1 Notes on the Geography of Old Bengal, J.A.8.B., 1908, pp. 281-2. 
