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Raja Ganik Chandra alias Govardhan, son of Govinda Hazra 

 and great-grandson of Devlbar Aich, is said to have received 

 his title from 'Ala'u-d-Dm Husain Shah or Nasrat Shah, being 

 at the same time given the parganahs of Hazradl and Husain- 

 shahi in the present Mymensingh district. These two parga- 

 nahs were included among the 22 subsequently conferred by 

 Akbar on 'Isa Khan (vide my recent Noteon Seven Sixteenth Cen- 

 tury Cannon, J.A.S.B., 1909, pp. 370 and 372); and the story 

 goes on to say that when 'Isa Khan came back from Dihli with the 

 firman granting him these 22 parganahs, much fighting ensued 

 between the old and new owners, one battle being fought at a 

 village called Kakurdia, between Jasodal and Jangalbarl, the 

 place from which 'Isa Khan had previously expelled a Koch 

 Raja called Lakshman, and where he had made his home. 'Isa 

 Khan, however, was unable to defeat Raja Ganik Chandra and 

 finally had recourse to the same stratagem as that used by 

 Husain Shah in capturing Kainatapur in 1494 (vide later in 

 this paper), as well as by Sher Shah at Fort Rohtas in 1538 

 ( = 945 A.H.), while Humayun idled at Gaur. 'Isa Khan sug- 

 gested that fighting should cease, and that as a sign of amity 

 between the two families, his ladies should visit the zenana of 

 the Raja. Instead of women, however, the palanquins were 

 filled with armed men, who, as soon as they were safely inside 

 the walls of the Raja's house, leapt out and killed him. The 

 Raja is said to have been worshipping at the time in his 

 private temple of Bhairavi (Kali) , and it was near the ruins of 

 this temple that the coins were found. According to the 'Am, 

 'Isa Khan is said to have returned from an expedition to Kuch 

 Bihar in 992 A.H. (1584 A.D.). 1 If this can be interpreted as 

 including Mymensingh, the greater part of which was then in- 

 habited by Kochs, it is probable that the burial of the trea- 

 sure and \Ganik Chandra's tragic death should be assigned to 

 about this date and not to 1003 — 1004 A.H. when 'Isa Khan 

 returned from Dihli, after being granted the 22 parganas by 

 Akbar. Local tradition states that 'Isa Khan was already in 

 possession of Jangalbarl in 1002 A.H., and advanced from there 

 with an army of Kochs to fight Man Singh at Egarosindhu. 

 If, on the other hand, the capture of the Koch fort at Jangal- 

 barl took place before 992 A.H., it is hardly likely that 'Isa 

 Khan would have tolerated for so long the existence of a rival 

 only three miles distant from his own house. The connexion 

 of 'Isa Khan and the Tippera Raj in 1587 (996 A.H.) referred 

 to in my paper on 'Isa Khan's Cannon (loc. cit., p. 369, note 1), 

 also shows that 'Isa Khan was firmly established in the neigh- 

 bourhood of south-east Mymensingh, several years before Man 

 Singh's invasion. 



* 'Am* Vol. I, Blochmann's translation, page 343 



