1S75.] H. Bloehmaun — History and Geography of Bengal. — No. III. 285 



Bakhtyar Khilji. The three places lie in adjacent parganahs, and lie all 

 south-east of parganah Deokot, as shewn on Sheet 119 of the Indian Atlas. 

 The correctness of my conjecture regarding the name of Santosh has 

 thus been verified by Major Raverty's MSS., and its identification shews 

 that Masidha, which is mentioned with it, is likewise correct. The 

 situation of these parganahs agrees with the small extent of the Lakhnauti 

 territory under the first Muhammadan rulers ; for they lie between Deokot 

 and the Karataya, which was the frontier. In fact Husam-uddin 'Iwaz 

 was the first that brought the whole territory of Gaur under control. 



The places that are still doubtful in the Bengal geography of the 

 Tabaqat, are Narankoi or N a r k o t i, for which other works have 

 ' B a r s u 1' ; and Sanknat, which is very likely the name of a region 

 east of the Karataya. 



Major Raverty's assertion* (pp. 582, 559) that Lakhnauti was called 

 by the emperor Humayun ' Bakhtabad', and the whole district ' Jannatabad', 

 is untenable. The Akbarnamah only mentions ' Jannatabad'. 



Regarding Jajnagar and its identification with the eastern parts of the 

 Central Provinces, Chutiya Nagpur,f and the Tributary Mahalls in Western 

 Orisa, Major Raverty has come to the same conclusion as I had. His identifi- 

 cation of the frontier district Katasinor Katasin with a place of the 

 name of Katasingh on the northern bank of the Mahanadi in the Tributary 

 Mahall of Angul is not yet quite clear to me. I cannot find the place on the 

 map, and the narrative of the Tabaqat implies a place nearer to Western 

 Bengal. The capital of Jajnagar, which in the MSS. is called U'mardan 

 (c<i/°y) remains to be identified. Major Raverty hints at the possibility 



* His source is a MS. of the Khuldgat-uttawdrUcli (a modern work) . I have a sus- 

 picion that ' Bakhtabad' is a copyist's error, and that the initial b is the Persian preposi- 

 tion ba, as va^Gawr rd maiisum ba-Jarmatdbdd sdkht, where ^bLiisr^has been drawn 

 together to jljlii), 



Major Kaverty's ' Arkhnak' (p. 593) is a wrong reading for ' Arkhang' or ' Rakhang'. 

 " Parganah Jasudah" (p. 593) — said to have been turned by Europeans into ' Jessore' — 

 is a copyist's error for ' Parganah Chittuah', (200 miles from Jessore) which was the 

 frontier between Bengal and Orisa ; vide Kin translation, Index. Besides, where does 

 the Persian author of the Haft Iqlim get the Hindi 3 from ? and how can he give the 

 revenue of Bengal under Jahangir, when the book was written in 1002 {vide A'fn 

 translation, I, p. 508) ? Again, the word ^(jUj 'uncultivated tract' of Sirkar Madaran 

 (p. 592, last line) is a mistake for ^Ub confines, frontier; but pdydn does not 



mean ' lower parts', as translated on p. 568, note. 



f Major Raverty's spelling Chhotah Nagpur has often been shewn to be erroneous, 

 as the correct name is Chutiya Nagpur (Li-a.^ from the old capital Chutiya, near 

 Ranchi. The spellings Chhar-kund and Jhar-kundah involve a wrong etymology, the 

 correct name being Jhar-khand, ' bush-district', as Bundcl-khand, ' the Bimdola district', 

 from *jjff a district, not from 3j^ a well. 



