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by Shah Doula, who governed till the year IO72. After this a chieftain, 

 known by the name of the Kan a Raja, obtained the supremacy, and by his 

 bravery and good management, not only put down all factions in his king- 

 dom, but regained the district of Ckiltagong and Tippera, and ruled till the 

 year 1093, when his son-in-law, Surya, aided by a party of conspirators, de- 

 posed and slew him, and assumed the Government of Aracan, but could not 

 retain that of Tippera and Chittagong : he died in 10^5, and was succeeded 

 by his son Norati Baddi, who governed for one year, when he was depos- 

 ed by his uncle Nara Pawa, who only held the Government during the year 

 1097. In 1098, his son Ujala ascended the throne, and after ruling for 

 six months, was killed by a Musselman, named Kala, who also ruled for six 

 months, when he was killed by a Mug Chieftain, named Mamdarai, uncle 

 of Ujala Kaja, who reigned till the year llOi, and was succeeded by his 

 uncle Ubhaya, who, in 1109, sent an expedition under his son-in-law, Saen 

 Twanja, against ^t;a, the result of which is not recorded. In 1113, Aga 

 Bakir, the Dacca Nawab, having been worsted in a contest near Dacca^ 

 by a Chief named U MAD A, applied to the Raja of Aracan for assistance: 

 he sent a Sirdar, by name Lata Mt^rang, with one thousand war boats to 

 the aid of the Nawab, and enabled him to gain the victory. In 1123, 

 Raja Ubhaya died, and was succeeded by his son Siri St5, who only 

 held the reins of Government for forty days, when his brother Pura- 

 MAN assumed the Raj, and held it till 112G, in which year he was deposed 

 and killed by Maharaja, a Chieftain, who had married a daughter of Raja 

 Ubhaya. This Maharaja ruled till 1135, when he was deposed and killed by 

 Saomana, the son of the Sirdar who, under Ubhaya's Government, had car- 

 ried an armament to Dacca to the assistance of Aga Bakir. Soamana ruled 

 till the year 1139, in which year a person named PntiRf, who was the head 

 musician at Aracan, went privately to Sandoway, and having collected 

 a number of men in the jungles, attacked and killed Soamana, and held 

 the sovereignty for forty days, after which he was deposed, and compelled 



