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his making submission and sending presents. But be was never really 
subdued, and bis swamps and creeks enabled bim to preserve bis inde¬ 
pendence as effectually as the Aravalli Hills protected Rana Pratap of 
Udaipur. At p. 733 there is an account of ‘Isa’s defeating and killing 
Durjan Singh the son of Rajah Man Singh. Perhaps the story in Dr. 
Wise’s paper, p. 213, about ‘Isa’s slaying Man Singh’s son-in-law in single 
combat is a reminiscence of this naval battle. At p. 763 we are told of 
‘Isa’s death, which took place in the 44th year of Akbar’s reign and in 
the year 1008, 1599-1600. Dr. Wise, p. 210, says that ‘Isa left two sons 
Musa and Diwan 1 Muhammad Khan of whom nothing- is known. But 
according to Abul Fazl p. 809 ‘Isa bad a son named Daud who gave Man 
Singh some trouble. Daud apparently was in league with Kedar the 
ruler of Bikrampur and Sarharpur and who evidently is the Kedar Rai 
of Bikrampur, Wise, i.e 202. 
In Mr. G-ait’s paper, already referred to, pp. 290-91, there is a refer¬ 
ence to wars between the “ Gaur Pasha ” and the Rajah of Kuc Bihar, 
and we are told that Silarai was defeated (see p. 290) and taken prisoner 
and afterwards released on account of his curing the Gaur Pasha’s 
mother of a snake-bite. There we are told that the Gaur Pasha’s mother 
afterwards died and that Nar Karavan and Akbar combined to attack 
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the Gaur Pasha. Silarai invaded his kingdom on the east and Man 
Singh from the west. The result was that the Gaur Pasha was defeat¬ 
ed and had to fly to the Faringhis. Further on Mr. Gait remarks, p. 
297, that the Mussalman historians of the period make no mention of 
the assistance said to have been rendered by Nar Karayan in the sub¬ 
jugation of Daud Shah. I submit that the apparent omission has 
been caused by Mr. Gait’s assuming that the Gaur Pasha meant was 
Daud Shah. The Kuc Bihar records apparently do not say so, and if 
we substitute ‘Isa Khan for Daud, the difficulty disappears. It is true 
that ‘Isa is not called Gaur Pasha by the Muhammadan historians, but 
neither is Daud, and the latter and his father before him lived at Tanda 
and not at Gaur. Gaur is an old name for a part of the Baqirganj dis¬ 
trict, and we find the title Gauriya assumed by another pretender to the 
throne of Bengal. ‘Isa too might well be called Gaur Pasha for he is 
said to have ruled to the confines of Kuc Bihar. The story about the 
snake-bite can hardly apply to Daud Shah’s mother Nolakhha who sur_ 
rendered to Khan Jahan and was sent up to Fathpur. Neither was 
Man Singh employed in Bengal in the time of Daud Shah. He was so 
employed in the time of ‘Isa, and at p. 733 we find it recorded that Man 
Singh acted in conjunction with Lachmi Narain of Kuc Bihar and that 
1 Perhaps the Diwan Kot 4 m. above Khizrpur and on the right bank Lakhia is 
a memento of this son. 
