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weer careodies; Radhiya-Varendras are several times referred 
to.! 
These references show that Radha had, by the eleventh and 
twelfth centuries, een applied to an extensive country, which was 
divided into t —— south and north. The country aaeteeeed 
then inclu jad ‘Suh a parts of Gauda proper, and Tamralipti, 
the oe and its Bhagirathi branch forming the eastern boun- 
This description is confirmed by the accounts given in the 
Tabakat-t Néasiri. he territory of 
Mussalman period. Lakhanawati has two wings on ait er 
side of the river Gang. The western side they call Ral [Rarh], 
and the city of Lakhan-or lies on that side ; and the eastern side 
ee eall Barind [Barindah], and the city ‘of Diw- kot is on that 
ide.”* ‘“ 'Tughril’s name became great, ani both sides of the 
country of Lakhanawati—the one part which they style Ral 
which is towards Lakhan-or, and the other is named Barind on 
the side of Basan- kot—became one, and came into Malik Tughril’s 
possession.” ? The Ral of this writer evidently refers to northern 
Radha. The Radha, north and south, would be comprised roughly 
in sarkars Mandaran, Sharifabad, E. Sulaimanabad, N. Satgaon, 
Audumbar and Lakhnanti of Todarmal’s rent-roll. 
The capital of old oe is not known. The traditionary 
Capital, imhapura cannot be located, Ko dive 
risam resembles Kotivarga, a visaya in 
Paundra-varddhana. Coming apeles down, the Prabodha-candr- 
odya. ae Radha-puri in Gauda. In the map of De Barros, 
ut on the west bank of oe Ganges, opposite Gouro; an 
Blaev (165a) shows in the same place Para, probably a mistake for 
Rara. The name disappears fii subsequent maps, and can not be 
traced in Todarmal’s mahals. 
On the other ‘ita: Tribeni, mentioned in the Pavana-ditam as 
the place where the branches separated,* rose into more impor- 
tance. By the time Zafar Khan’s mosque (698 H.), and some 
with this mint was struck in the name of the Delhi emperor 
Tughlak and is dated 730 H. The ee continued there 
till Akbar’s time, when a change in the river courses forced its 
removal to Hughli, six miles down.® The mint at Satgaon disap- 
peared by the end of fifteenth century. 

1 — Literature in Bengal during the Sena Rule, J.A.S.B., 1906, 
p- 176, note 
nanan pp. 584-6, 737. 
58. % Gaudam raéstram-anuttamam nirupama tatr-api Radha-pur?, Canto II, 7, 
p. 
: 2 A.S.B., 1905 44, 58, ve 
arkar Rng d Arsa pon Jarrett, rr, 124, 140-1; J.R.AS., 
1896, waa Ruins described by Blochmann, J.A.S.B., 1870, p. 280. 
