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The Mughul Invasions of PaUimau. 
[No. 2, 
About 1054-55, Facli, the third invasion occurred under the 
famous general David Khan. This invasion was the result of a 
very sharp reprimand from the Emperor and threats of removal 
from office, if the Palamau Pajahs were not made to pay. Daud 
Khan was then at Daudnagar. He marched suddenly down upon 
the Kohilah fort of Kothi in Tappah Kothi, Parganah Sherg’hati, 
and took it; from there he marched to Kundah Port in Parganah 
Kundah, Zil’ali Hazaribagh, which he took after a considerable 
shew of resistance. Pemaiiiing there some time, David Khan 
marched to Tarhasi ( i. e., Mangarh). The fort was now no longer 
in existence. There the Pajah, Anant Pai, offered terms, but Dadd 
Khan would listen to nothing short of abject submission, and the 
only grounds upon which the Pajah would be allowed to hold 
power were on the condition that he turned Muhammadan, and 
paid down a certain sum annually; otherwise the Pajah was to be 
dethroned and dispossessed, and all strongholds demolished. The 
same terms were offered to the Kundah Pajah. The Palamau 
chief indignantly refused such degrading terms, and preferred to 
fight the matter out, but the Kundah chief Chun Sai # did actually 
turn Muhammadan and was rewarded by receiving a lakhiraj 
Padishahi Sanad. 
The Palamau chiefs resisted as long and as ably as they could, but 
were soon compelled to withdraw to their forts, which they even¬ 
tually surrendered. The Pajah fled to Sirgujah, and Mankli Khan 
was appointed Faujdar and lived over three years in the Fort, where 
he built the small Masjid, now to be seen inside the old Fort. 
Daud Khan, when leaving the Parganah, carried off with him 
the great gates of the Fort, known as the Sing Danvazah and the 
pride of the Cheros. 
The gates now adorn David Khan's old palace in Daudnagar. 
Mr. Peppe speaks of a picture or fresco, I think, which he told 
me is now to be seen in Daudnagar, or somewhere there, re¬ 
presenting the taking of the Palamau Forts, in which the costumes 
are very well hit off, the Palamau chiefs and their army, if I re¬ 
collect right, are drawn as hill men with bows and arrows. If you 
* Chun Sai did not long survive his pusillanimous apostasy. At the instiga¬ 
tion of the Palamau ltajah he was murdered 15 days later by his brother 
Surwar Sai. 
