284 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (May, 1908. 
transfer tpt the oe of eighteenth century to Maxudabad 
by Murshid Quli Khan, at whose instance the latter name was 
altered to Murshidabad, . 
Il. SUHMA. 
Suhma is mentioned in the Mahabhasya under Paniniya IV,. 
Subiua with Angas, Vangas and Pundras.! 
we 
quests eee is preceded by Vanga and Tamralipta and is 
followed by residents on the sea-coast. Similarly in eta 8 dig- 
vijaya, Suhma is mentioned after the Pac and 
and the tract within the streams of the Ganges. “ Fv him, the ~ 
rooter-out ve the unbent, the Suhmas saved their lives by following 
the cany course, like against a river torrent.” * Piecing together 
A informations, = vice is to be placed near (but not on) the 
a gre with marshes full of canes, Its position 
saucy lay on the E Bhagirathi branch, west of Vanga, and nort 
of Tamralipti, fer oe the modern districts of Bardwan, Hugli, 
Nadia nit part of 24-parganas. 
t of the references name Tamralipti separately from 
pipers and, therefore, they were two distinct countries. But 
Raghuvamsa omits Tamralipti ; Shale the Ditch neste 
ocates Damalipti town among t mas. It would seem, there- 
fore, that at a later time bot rmed one kingdom, Yuan- 
chwang in his Records and Life omits Suhma; which might have 
ng in 
been then included in the large kingdom of Karna-suvarna, Still 
later, the name Suhma disappeared in the Radha. Nilakantha i in 
commenting on Bhim&’s conquest in Eastern India (Sabha-P°) 
remarks Suhmah Radhahk. 
The early Mussalman governars — ae gp parents in 
possession of Suhma. e most power- 
Mussalman period. 1 of the Khalj chiefs, Husam-ud-din 




1 Kielhorn’ 8 Kd., 
2 MBh., di-P*, ait. a 55 (origin from the sage Dirghatamas), CXIIT, 
29 Pandu’s Co on uest) ; Sabha-P’, XXVII, 21 (Arjuna’s conquests), XXX, 
16, e = conguest) 5 = arna- P. VIII, 19. HV., Harivamsa-P°, XXXI, 
34, 48; Bhavi : 
es ihe sxe ak samhitd, her 37, XIV. 5, XVI.1; Pardsara, 
nas, § 
ed n Ul a’s commentary on Br. XIV, 5; various Pura uch 
ie Markandeye, Vayu, ete.; Dasa-k ieiniegaceie 6th ucchasa, pp. 155, 177. 
4 Raghuvamésa, IV, 35. 
