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Notes on Chutia Nagpur , Packet, and Paldmau. [No. 2, 
Zabardast Khan ; but as none of bis illustrious predecessors who 
bad been rulers, bad ever gone to Patna, be could not promise to 
go there. Zabardast, in reply, said that be would have either to go 
to Patna or perish. After several other messages, Pratab declared 
himself willing to go to Patna, though it be, he said, against the 
wishes of his party; but he requested Zabardast to give him a 
letter of safety and promise him that he would do him no harm. 
This Zabardast agreed to, and Pratab had an interview, at 
which he gave the Khan an elephant. As he was still willing to 
go to Patna, Zabardast asked Ptiqad Khan to send him a letter 
of safety, and wrote to ’Abdullah Najm i sani that, as Pratab had 
submitted, it was no use for him to advance beyond where he 
stood, since Zabardast himself was on the point to return. 
On the 17th Pamazan [19th November, 1643], Zabardast left 
Palamau accompanied by Pratab, and on the 22nd joined ’Abdullah 
Najm i sani at Dfiogan, from where both marched to Patna. 
Pratab presented Ptiqad Khan with an elephant, and agreed to 
pay into the imperial treasury a peshlcash of one lac of Pupees, 
which Zabardast was to receive. I’tiqad then sent a detailed 
report to court, and recommended Pratab for a mancab. Thereupon 
his Majesty appointed Pratab a full commander of 1000 horse; 
the jama 1 of Palamau was fixed at 1 kror of dams [250,000 rupees], 
and the district was left him as tuyul [Muharram, 1054, or 
beginning of March, 1644, A. D.].— 
The Pddishdhndmah records no further conflict between the 
Mughul government and Palamau. From a remark on p. 733 of 
the second volume of that work, we see that Pratab was still alive 
in 1057, or A. D. 1647. 
The following extracts are taken from the ’ Alamgirnamah 
(pp. 648 to 660 ; 673, 972). The translation is not literal; for the 
ornate style of the work renders a close version undesirable. 
Third Invasion and Sack of Paldmau, in A. D. 1660. 
Page 648. The heathenish zamindars of Palamau trusting to 
the inaccessibility of their country had not only shewn neglect in 
paying the stipulated peshkash, but had also encroached on imperi¬ 
al lands adjacent to their country. When therefore Dadd Khan, 
