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Ganga kings, and thus became a frontier town, far from the 
capital. It would naturally be looted first in every war with 
neighbouring kings; and the prared from the capital with the 
unsettled state of the country encouraged river pirates and land 
dacoits. The trade in this way dwindled until it became a 
shadow of its former self. Not improbably the river encroached 
and swallowed up the town or the greater part of it, thus giving the 
finishing touches, 
ambtlak appears as a mahal of sarkar Jalesar in Todar- 
mal’s rent-roll, with tho hae s ae 50, infantry 1,000, has a 
P 
ase. The in 
in descent (fftee nth in direct descent) from a Kaivartta chief 
n alu Raya. He must have got the zemindari after the 
rent-roll, in which a Khandait is mentioned as the landlord. 

1 Ain-t-Akbari, Jarrett, II, 142. Correct Tambtlak for its Tanbilak, 
neers J.R.A.8 , 189 96, p. 74 
2 Dr. n Francis Gemel i Careri, = Voyage mse the World, in Church- 
hills’ Collections of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV., “The e Portngueses 
further subdued the a pare fort of Face 4 ei kingdom of Madure ; 
a in the kingdom of Bengala; and Macassar in the kingdom of that 
w1 Babu ieee Ghosa, Séhitya-parisad-patrikad, IX, pp. 54-55, 
giving a list of ancestor 
