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tion of the town should be sought for towards the south, and on 
the west of the Bhagirathi branch (in Rarh), at the same time not 
far from that river being in swampy lands. None of the places 
suggested, Nagor by Stewart, Lacarcoondah by Blochmann, and 
Kankjol by Cunningham, satisfies these conditions. Its identi- 
uins 
extending for some miles inland,” where have been found 
‘carved stones, pillars, slabs with Pali inscriptions, gold coins, 
and much broken pottery.’?! It now lies on the Azimganj- 
Nalhati line, west of the Bhagirathi branch within Lalbagh 
subdivision : and careful explorations may throw some light. 
DEVT-KOT. 
Next to Lakhaniwati, no place of Bengal was regarded 
; " more important in the J’abakat-i than Diw- 
In Musalman period. 54. Here Mubammad-i Bakhtiyar died in 
602 H., Sha’ban (began on 13th March, 1206 A.D.); here ’ Ali-i- 
Mardin assumed government in 606 H. (1209-10 A.D.) ; and 
Husamu-d-din ’iwaz was its feoffee betore becoming Sultan. It 
of Kaikais, vide an inscription dated lst Mubarram 697 H. (19th 
October, 1297 A.D.). It was intimately connected with the saint 
Maulana Ata, in whose memory a tomb was completed by 
Muzaffar Shah (inscription dated 896 H., 1490-1 A.D.) ; and 
in front of whose door a second mosque with minaret was built 
in the reign of Husen Shah (inscription dated 918 H., 1512-3 
A.D.)’ The town has now disappeared ; but the name still 
1 Report of Capt. W. 8. Sherwill, dated 19th February, 1857, in the 
Selections from Bengal Government Records, no. XX1X, Pp. !- 
2 Tabakat-i Nasiri, transl., pp. 572, 576, 578, 586. 
8 A.S.R., xv, pp. 98-100. 
