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country round about Bhitargarh is often called Madindh Madaran. 

 Within Bhitargarh there are two tanks, called Kajlali and Pa tlah 

 Talao, both from the times of Hazrat Isma'il. As in Panduah, a tame 

 alligator lives in one of the tanks, and on calling ' Sadari Madari' 

 the animal will come near the land. 



The great veneration in which Ismail's tomb at Madaran has been 

 held, has given rise to the establishment of Dargdhs in other places. 

 Thus at Darwishpur, near Haripal (W. of Biddabattee, E. I. E.) 

 a spot is sacred to his memory; and near Shyuri ((SJ^*)t or 

 as we call it, Sooree in Birbhiim, a field and a large tree are sacred 

 to him, and travellers have to alight from their tattoos or palkees, 

 and humbly walk on foot past the field. 



'About a Jcos S. E. of Madaran, there is another place, which 

 I cannot find on the Trig. Maps, called Dmanath, where two large 

 gateways are standing forming entrances to an enclosure containing 

 about eight or ten bighahs. The gateways were erected, in A. H. 

 1136, or A. D. 1723-24, by Shuja'uddaulah Mutaminul Mulk Asad- 

 Jang, in commemoration of his return from Orissa to Bengal. 

 People say, the enclosure was a standing military bazar (farudgdh). 

 I have succeeded in getting facsimiles of the inscriptions. 



If we strip the legend of the headless rider of the wonderful, we 

 have the plain story that Isma'il, Granj i lashkar, a general of 

 Husain Shah, invaded Orissa from Bengal in the beginning of the 

 16th century, gained a signal victory over of the Orissians at 

 Katak, and then returned to Madaran, where he built a Fort 

 within the walls of which he lies buried. Whatever difference of 

 opinion may exist as to the historical value of legends in general, 

 it strikes me that the Madaran legend confirms and completes, in a 

 most unexpected manner, the Uria accounts from which Stirling 

 extracted the above mentioned details of the Muhammadan in- 

 vasion of Orissa. 



II. Panduah feSJo). 



Panduah is the second station after Huglf on the E. I. Eailway: 



It was till lately the chief town of the Parganah of the same name, 



and occurs as such in Todar Mall's rent-roll, where the Parganah 



is assessed at 1823292 dams, or 45582 R. It became English in 



