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1904.] H. Beveridge —Isft Khan. 
‘ Isa’s naval fight with Rajah Man Singh’s son Durjan Singh, in, which 
the latter was defeated and killed. There too we have the variant 
Katrabuh. In both cases the India office M.S. No. 236 has Kasrabuh 
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which only differs by one dot from Katrabuh. The India Office MS. 
235 has Katrabuh or Katraluh. The Maasir-ul-Umra II, 474, has 
Katrapur. I think then that we may take it that Katrabuh is the 
correct reading, and it is evident that this is the Katrabo of Dr. Wise’s 
paper, which he describes as being still the residence of descendants of 
‘Isa Khan. J.A.S.B. for 1874, p. 211. See also p. 214 where Katrabo 
in Sarkar Bazuha is mentioned in a sanad belonging to the Jangalbari 
family. Bakhtarapur which is mentioned by Dr. Wise as ‘ Isa’s resi¬ 
dence is only given doubtfully by Mr. Blochmann, and appears to be a 
misreading for Katrabuh, the first letter h having been taken as part 
of the name, instead of as a preposition. It will be seen from Dr. 
Wise’s paper that “ Catrabo ” is mentioned by Sebastian Manrique 
who was in Bengal in the first half of the 17th century, as one of the 
twelve provinces. Upon this Dr. Wise remarks : “ Catrabo is Katrabo, 
now a tappa on the Lakhya opposite Khizrpur and which for long was 
the property of the descendants of ‘ Isa Khan.” There does not appear 
to be any town or village of the name of Katrabo now in existence, and 
a tappa of course may be a pretty large area. I imagine that the tappa 
is what appears in the Ain Jarrett II, p. 138, as Katarmalbazu and 
which yielded a revenue of nearly three million of dams (about 
Rs. 75,000). In the text of the Ain, p. 404, we have the variant Kata- 
bal, and Tiefenthaler gives Katarbal. Now in Rennel’s map of the 
Meghna to the head of the Lakhia, as reproduced in Tiefenthaler 
Vol. III., we have a place marked Goraboe N. of Dacca and on the 
right bank of the Lakhia or Banar, a little north of Ekdallah. 
May not this be Katrabuh ? It seems evident that Shahbaz Khan 
after capturing Sonargaon sailed up the Lakhia, or marched along 
its banks to Agarasindur and Toke and then came out on the Brah¬ 
maputra, i.e., what was the Brahmaputra then and is still so called 
by the natives. The Kinara Sindur of the text is, I have no doubt, 
Agarasindur in the Mymensingli district, opposite Toke and which 
in my time was another name for the Nikli thana. Goraboe is near 
the site of Doordooreah marked on Taylor’s map in his topography of 
Dacca, and described by him at pp. 112-114. It is true that he marks 
Doordooreah as on the left bank of the Lakhya, but apparently the 
town and the fort were on opposite sides, p. 113. His words are: “At 
one of these localities in thana Kapasia, known in the present day by 
the name of Doordooreah, and situated upon the banks of the Banar, 
about eight miles above Akdalla, are to be seen the remains of a fort 
