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during the rains. Parikshit was defeated in a naval engagement in 
the Gajiidhar river and retreated, first to Khelah and afterwards to 
Budhnagar on the Manas, where he at last surrendered, and by the 
Emperor Jahangir’s orders, was sent to Court. His brother Bali 
Narayana, or Buldeo, as he is called by the Musalman historian, fled to 
the Ahom king. 
The Musalmans proceeded, under Sayyad Hakim and Sayyad Aba 
Invasion of Upper Baqr, to invade the country of the Ahoms, but 
Assam ’ were destroyed in a night attack. A fuller 
account of this invasion is contained in the Ahom chronicles, where it 
is stated that the Musalmans proceeded as far as Bishnunath. They were 
at first victorious and took many captives, but were subsequently de- 
feated by the Ahoms, who had called in the aid of the Kacharls of 
Khaspur. The cause of the invasion is said to have been the murder 
by the Ahom garrison, at Koliabar, of a Muhammadan trader who was 
suspected of being a spy. It is stated that Aba Baqr (who is called 
Babakar in the A'hom Bnranji) and his son Ghivasu’d-dln were slain in 
the battle, and that the body of the latter was taken back to Hajo and 
buried there.* 
The Padishdhndmah continues that Bali Narayanaf then persuaded 
* Gunabhiram says that this invasion is described in the Guru Bhatima, a col- 
lection of hymns written shortly after the time of the occurrence by S'ahkar Deva 
and his disciple and successor, Madhava. I have not been able to procure a com- 
plete collection of these hymns, but in a selection of them published by Haribilas 
Gupta, the only Musalman invasion referred to (page 79) is one in which the ruler 
of Gaur is said to have been utterly defeated by Nara Narayana. In this account, 
the destruction of images is not mentioned, and it is possible that some other inva- 
sion is referred to. 
f The Ahoms called him Dharma Narayana. In Ahom histories it is said that 
Bali Narayan or Baghu Deva (accounts differ) gave the daughter of the latter— Man- 
galdiii by name— to Pratapa Simha in marriage. Mangaldai town and river are said 
to be named after this princess. 
Ghiyasu’d-din is said to have been a very pious and learned man, and the sanc- 
tity attaching to his tomb was consequently so great, that it became a very sacred 
place in the eyes of the Musalmans, and was accordingly known as Powa Mekka. 
The origin of this name is differently accounted for by a writer in the Calcutta 
Beview of 1867. He says that after the death of Husain Shah’s son, Danyal. 
Sultan Ghiyasu’d-dm succeeded him, and brought a colony of Musalmtns to Haj,; 
and made large assignments of lands for religious purposes. He resolved to build 
a grand mosque at Hajo, and brought earth from Mekka to give additional sanctity 
to the place. He died however before completing the mosque, and was buried 
under the holy earth. It is not known from what source this writer derived his 
information, but it seems on the face of it more probable than the other story, as it 
is hard to believe that a vanquished army would carry a corpse so great a distance 
as from Bishnunath to Hajo. On the other hand, it is unlikely that Musalmans re- 
