412 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
of Firaz Shah) came to Bengal from Manrgaun in Birbhum, 
for the purpose of converting infidels to the- Muhammadan 
faith. The ostensible reason is given by the following local 
story collected by Mr. Money. A Mahomedan subject of a 
Hindu Raja on a certain festival in honour of his son used 
cow’s flesh. The Raja slew the son. The father resorted to 
the Court of Delhi ( sic’) and told his tale to Feruze Shah, 
who immediately sent an army to Bengal against the Raja, 
commanded by Zafir Khan, and his nephew Soofee Khan. 
The Raja’s name was Bhoodey Nripati (i.e. King) with whom 
a battle was fought at a place called Mahanad, near Satgram, 
about 8 miles west of Triveni, where Zafir Khan’s army was 
victorious. é 
The story is obviously a muddled one, for the first inva- 
sion of Satganw must have been in the time of Kaikaus, as 
Zafar Khan erected a mosque at Triveni in 698 A.H.; but 
apart from the fact that there was no Dehli Sultan of the name 
of Firaz at the time!; Zafar Khian’s subsequent subordina- 
tion to Shamsuddin Firtiz Shah of Bengal is shown by the 
appearance of this Sultan’s name on the memorial tablet on 
the Madrasah erected by Zafar Khan at Triveni in 713. The 
more reliable Khurseenamab goes on to say that having made 
a proselvte of Raja Man Nripati, Zafar Khan was killed in a 
battle fought with Raja Bhoodev at Hughli. His head was 
left on the field and his body buried at Triveni. His death, 
according to Mr. Money, occurred in the same year 713 as 
Zafar Khan erected the Madrasah already referred to. The 
Khurseenamah further states that ‘Ugwhan Khan, son of the 
aforesaid Shah Zafir Kh azee, having marched against 
the Raja of Hugli in Sirear Satgram, conquered him, con- 
verted the infidels to Mahomedanism and married his daughter. 
After some time Ugwhan Khan also died at Triveni.’ 
Thus Satginw passed into Musalman hands; and in 
Barani’s account? of Muhammad ibn Tughlaq’s relations 
with Bengal for the few years following 725 we find it men- 
tioned as one of the three recognized divisions of Bengal. The 
other two Sirkars were Lakhnauti, the original principality 
acquired by Bakhtivar Khilji in 1198 A.D., and Sunarganw, 
have been finally conquered soon after Balban’s invasion of 
EKastern Bengal in 682. 
_ Now it is curious that precisely the same story for the 
invasion of a Hindu kingdom by Musalmans occurs in local 

ot Alauddin Muhammad Shah was on the throne of Delhi from 
2 Elliot, UII, pp. 236 and 239. 
