1850.] or Chronicles of Tripurd. 553 



The usurper having died, Gobinda was again elected to the throne ; 

 he sold the sword given him by Shah Suja, and devoted the money to 

 objects of utility ; he gave presents of salt to all the people of Udipur, 

 cultivated the wastes of Maharkul, and granted land at a reduced rent 

 to the Brahmans, confirming his donation on copper-plates ; he died 

 much regretted, and was succeeded by his son. Daring his reign in- 

 trigues were made with the Nawab of Murshidabad* to dispossess him 

 of the throne — but in vain. 



Ratna Manik succeeded when only five years old, when he grew up 

 he married one hundred and twenty wives ; the heir apparent was guilty 

 of great cruelty, on which account Shaista Khan, Nawab of Bengal, 

 took him prisoner and sent him to Delhi. 



Narendra Manik usurped the throne through his influence with the 

 Nawab of Dacca, but his deceit being found out, the Nawab deposed 

 him and reinstated the former Raja ; but he did not hold it long, as 

 his brother by intriguing with the Nawab of Murshidabad gained 

 the throne ; his ministers telling him that as two tigers cannot remain 

 in the same jangal, nor one wife with two husbands, so neither could 

 he remain with the old Raja ; he therefore had him strangled, but after 

 that period he never enjoyed peace, being haunted with dreams of some 

 person strangling him in the same way as he had strangled his brother, 

 he gradually wasted away in flesh. 



Dharma Manik succeeded. The Nawab of Murshidabad having 

 deprived him of a large portion of territory on the plains, locating 

 Mogul zemindars in them, and the Mogul troops at Udipur proving a 

 great annoyance, the Raja resolved to destroy them : he invited them 

 to dinner and intoxicating them with strong liquor, he had the palace 

 gates shut when all were killed with the exception of a few who climb- 

 ed the walls and so escaped. 



At this time, A. D. 1739, Jagat Rama, the son of Satra Manik, who 

 had long lived an exile from his country at Dacca, induced the Nawab 

 of Dacca to send an army to enforce his claims to the throne of 

 Tripura, he promising to pay up the arrears of tribute ; the Muham- 



* This statement of Murshidabad being the capital contradicts the accounts of 

 the historians that until 1704 Jaffier Khan did not remove the seat of government 

 from Dacca to Murshidabad, which received its name from Murshid Kuli Khan. 

 However mention is made of the place in the reign of Akbar. 



