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thrown by Husain Shah in 1498 A. D., and that afterwards Chandana and 
Mariana reigned for a few years at Manila vasa, a place some 20 miles north 
of Kamathapura. If, therefore, Chandana and Madana ruled the whole of 
the country formerly under tho sway of the Khyen Rajas, it would be 
impossible for Visva Sim ha to have begun to rule before 1515-1520 A. D. 
It has, however, already been shown that after the fall of Nilambar, there 
was no ruler of the whole kingdom, but that many petty chiefs exer- 
cised supreme power iu different parts of the country. This being so, 
there is no reason why Visva Simha should not have begun to rule some 
poi’tion of the country while Chandana and Madana still held sway at 
Maralavasa. Buchanan Hamilton says that “ the Bihar Rajas reckon 
by the era of their ancestor, Visva, whom they suppose began to govern 
in the Bengal year 916 or 1509 A. D.,” and as this, on the date arrived 
at for Nara Narayana’s accession, would give him a reign of 25 years, 
there seems to be no reason for discrediting the date thus assigned for 
Visva Simha’s accession. We have seen that this prince gradually rose 
from the position of one of many petty chiefs to be ruler of the whole 
country from Rangpur to Kamarupa, and that he eventually found 
himself strong enough to march against the Ahom king in Upper 
Assam. It is very unlikely he could have effected all this in a shorter 
time than that allowed him according to the above calculation. Finally 
Lakshmi Narayana’s Vamsdvali mentions 25 years as the duration of his 
reign, and this is exactly the period intervening between 1509, the date 
of his accession according to the Koch era, and 1534, the date of his 
death according to Prasiddha Narayana’s Vamsdvali. 
Turning now to the kings who succeeded Nara Narayana, it has al- 
„ „ ^ ready been shown that Raghu Deva probably 
became king of the country east of the San- 
kosh in 1581 A. D. Gunabhiram and Prasiddha Narayana’s Vamsdvali 
agree in saying that his death took place in 1593 A. D., and we know 
from the Pddishdhndmah that Parikshit was ruling when Jahangir came 
to the throne in 1605. Wc may, therefore, accept 1593 as the approxi- 
mate date of Raghu’s death. 
According to Gunabhiram, Parikshit died in 1606 A. D. at Patna. 
The Pddishdhndmah, however, places his defeat 
by Mukarram Khan in 1613-14, so that accord- 
ing to this account, his death must have taken place about 1614 or 1615 
A. D. 
Bali Narayana, who succeeded Parikshit, is said by Gunabhiram 
to have died in 1634 A. D.,* but it appears from 
the account given in the Pddishdhndmah that 
* The same date is given in Prasiddha Narayana’s Vamsdvali. 
Parikshit’s dates. 
Bali Narayana’s dates. 
