1896.] N, N. Vasu—Copper-plate inscription of Nrsiiha-déva II. — 22 
Shining day and night, making Meru over to the Brahmanas in 
pious gifts, namely, the twlapurusa, (and consequently the gods being 
deprived of their home), (King Nara-simha) built at Konakona (a place 
of great renown) a temple for the Sun to live in with the other gods.’ 
From the above it is plain that king Nrsimha I conquered the 
Muhammadan dominions of Radha and Varéndra. The contempora- 
neous historian Minhaj i-Saraj thus writes :— 
‘In this same year likewise (642 Hijra), the Rae of Jajnagar, in 
order to avenge the plundering of Katasin, which had taken place the 
preceding year, as has been already recorded, having turned his face 
towards the Lakhanawati territory on Tuesday, the 13th of the month 
of Shawwal 642 H. (i.e, 1244 A. D.), the army of infidels of Jaj-nagar, 
consisting of elephants, and payiks (foot-mien) in great numbers, arrived 
opposite Lakhanawati... Malik Tughril-i-Tughin Khan came out of 
the city to confront them. The infidel host, on coming beyond the 
frontier of Jaj-nagar territory, first took Lakhan-or; and Fakhru-l-mulk, 
Karimu-d-din, Laghri, who was the feudatory of Lakhan-or, with a 
body of Musalmans, they made martyrs of, and, after that, appeared 
before the gate of Lakhanawati. The second day after that, swift 
messengers arrived from above [the Do-abah and Awadh &c.] and 
gave information respecting the army of Islim that it was near at 
hand. Panic now took possession of the infidels and they’ es 71 
He again relates :— 
‘After he (Yiz-bak-i:Tughril han) _ went to that part, and 
brought that country under his jurisdiction, hostility arose between 
him fan the Rae of Jaj-nagar. The leader of the forces of Jaj-nagar 
was a person, by name Saban- tar, the son-in-law of the Rae, who, 
during the time of Malik ‘ Izzu- a: din, Tughril-i- Tughan- Khan, had 
advanced to the bank of the river of Lakhanawati. In Malik Tughril 
Khan-i-Yuz-Bak's time, judging from the past, he [the Jaj-nagar leader] 
manifested great boldness, and fought, and was defeated. Again, an- 
other time, Malik Tughril Khan-i-Yuz-Bak fought an engagement with 
the Rae of Jaj-nagar, and again came out victorious. 
‘On a third occasion, Malik Yuz-Bak sustained a slight reverse, 
and a white elephant, than which there was no other more valuable in 
that part, and which was ruttish, got out of his hands in the field of 
battle, and fell into the hands of the infidels of Jaj-nagar.’ 2 
The battles which according to Minhaj’s statement appear to have 
been fought undertwo Muhammadan rulers, in reality took place successive- 
ly in the time of the Utkala kings Ananga-bhima and his son Narasimha I. 
1 Col. Eamwidia Titec as p. 740. 
' & Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, p. 762-3. 
