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74 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII, 



latter declares that it was Nandgaon. (Sarkar, p. lxxxvii). 

 The Chahar Oulshan itself is not a work of the highest au- 

 thority, and the solitary manuscript on which Mr. Sarkar had 

 to rely was admittedly full of blunders, being characterized as 

 the work of a scribe " more remarkable for the beauty of his 

 penmanship than the soundness of his Persian scholarship" 

 (ib., p. xxi). It is clear, therefore, that we must have, for a 

 satisfactory identification, some more convincing and reliable 

 authority. Now Grant Duff states :— " The viceroy [Khan 

 Jahan Bahadur] went in pursuit of them [the Mahrattas who 

 had appeared in different parts of Aurangabad and Ahmad- 

 nagar] in various directions, but without success, and at last, 

 cantoned for the rains at Pairgaom on the Beemil . where he 

 erected a fortification and gave it the name of Buhadurgarh." 

 The historian of the Mahrattas places the event in 1672 a.c. 

 and adds in a footnote that the place ' ' does not retain this 

 name, but continued upwards of forty years, one of the principal 

 depots of the Moghal army." (History of the Mahrattas ~ 



1873, p. 114 and note). Grant Duff's authority for the state- 

 ment was the Bundela Officer's Narrative in Jonathan Scott's 

 Dekkan, where we read : 



" Bahadur Khan, learning that the Mahrattas were collect- 

 ing in the neighbourhood of Poontih , left his baggage at Chummar 

 Koondah, and by forced marches came up with and gave them 

 a signal defeat, in which Soopkern Bondela behaved with 

 particular gallantry. He then moved to Burragaum, twenty 

 coss distant from Ahmednuggur, on the banks of the Beemrab, 

 a river separating the Hyderabad territories from those of 

 Bijapur and which has its source from the mountains of Kokun 

 at a place called Bhameeau Sunkeree, near the fort of Loeghur. 

 Here Bahadur, to perpetuate his memory, built a fort and 

 erected a magnificent palace which he cailed Bahadurghur. 1 ' 

 J. Scott, Ferishta's History of the Dekkan, vol. II, pp. 34-5. 



Let us now see what we can glean about Bahadurgarh 

 trom the Musalman chronicles themselves. 



In the first place then, I find Khan Khan saying 



* &j&« cJy^ri 



9 



Bibliotheca Indica Text, II, p. 539, 11. 16-17. 



-And in the middle of the month of Rajab [1116 a.h.] be 

 jthe Lmperor] marched from that place [DeogaonJ toward 

 Bahadurgadh, otherwise called Bairgaon." 



Kh-J» t ! r f ° rm Bair ^ on also occurs bv itself in Kb** 



nwimTS T P \ 449 (1107 A ' H )> P- W (1110 a.h.), an* 

 p. 51M(1113 A.H.), and the variant readings given by the Editor 



are #&*» . ^ Sji _ . - and . 449 a0 d 



