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name forced its Rae to retire; while the whole of his family, 
dependants and followers with his wealth and elephants fell 
into the hands of the Musalman forces.! 
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The tract of Mandar was conquered by the Orissan king Cor- 
atiga, according to inscriptions; and it was called Mandaran, 
# ; : 
so derived in the Bhavisyat-Purdna.? Its chief town, the fort of 
Mandaran, formed the traditionary head-quarter of Isma’il 
Ghazi, general of Husen Shah, and contains a tomb erected in 
his memory. Madaran formed a large sarkar in the Aim, occu- 
pying the whole of the western border of Bengal; and during 
ve Ganga rule it evidently formed the frontier province of north 
ris 
sa. 
In the Tabakat-i, Jajnagar always means Orissa, probably 
es north Orissa. The name is derived from 
bes Jajpur town on the bank of the Vaita- 
rani river, an old head-quarter of north Orissa. Curiously 
enough in a late Oriya poem, Premakaia of the fourth quarter 
of the eighteenth century, Jajpur is distinctly named as Jaj- 
nagra.’ The Jajnagar of Barni, lying towards Sunargaon,* may 
be another place, evidently a corruption of Jahaj-nagar or city 
of boats or ships.’ We have still Jehaj-ghata in Howrah. 
PAnpvUA, FIRozABAD. 
The capital was transferred from Lakhnauti to Pandua, 
Pandus. capital not merely because the former had 
oa tg Lynam uninhabitable from the diversions 
of the river, but also because the latter had considerable faci- 
lity of water communications. At present the river Maha- 
on the west, while several villages have names signifying water- 
connexion, ¢,g., Murlighat. All these facts indicate that in the 
palmy days of the city, the river flowed close to it, thus en- 
abling the numerous long basalt slabs of Adina and other 
mosques to be easily transported by water from the Rajmahal 
Tabakat-i Naséri, p. 763. 2 Ind. Ant., xx, p. 420. 
J.A.S.B., 1898, p. 374. 4 Barni, Elliot, iii, p. | as 
A tradition still calls Tippera JahG@z-nagar, J .A.S.B,, 1874, Pp. 59, 
