216 Journal of ihe Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1909. 
In the Hindu period, too, it formed an important town. 
According to tradition the old fort near 
Dumdumma was the capital of Banaraja ; 
and this tradition is pretty old, for following it the lexico- 
grapher Hema-candra of the eleventh century makes Devi-kot 
In Hindu period. 
Enos caplet, tent with Yuan Chwang’s description, at 
least more consistent than that of any other place as yet sug- 
gested. According to Yuan Chwang, it lay, after crossing a 
river, 600 li east from Ki-shu-ho-kie-lo or kie-chu-wen-ka’g-lo 
(Kajangala ¢); and at a distance from it eastward for 900 li, 
after crossing a river, lay Ka-mo-lu-p’o (Kama-riipa) ; and from 
it south-east after another 900 li or so lay Kie-io-na-su-fa-la-na 
(Karna-suvarna).’ The directions are to be taken evidently in 
a general way, for in another Chinese work, 7’ an-shu, Kajan- 
gala is described as being 400 lisouth-west from Pun-na-fa-tan-na, 
lying in the east of Mid-India and on the south of the Ganges.* 
Umurpan. 
Ikhtiyaru-d-din Yazbak-i Tughril Khan of Bengal fought 
Duiiedan: thrice with the forces of Jajnagar and with 
varying successes. The following year 
he marched into the territory of Umurdan alias Ormurdan or 
Azmurdan, and unexpectedly reaching the capital of the same 
1 Sherwill’s Survey Report o/ the Dinagepore District, 1863, pp. 41-2. 
2 Arch. Sur. Ben. Cir., 1900-1, p. vii. 
oe Records, Beal, ii, pp. 184, 185, Watters, ii, 184, 185, Lij2, Beal, 
p. 131. 
+ Watters, ii, p. 185. 
