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he saved the latter, although in the river-combat Man Singh’s son was 
defeated and killed. We know also from p. 716 that ‘Isa supported 
the Patkuar against Lachml Narain, and we have in Dr. Wise’s paper, 
p. 213, a reference to a victory obtained over the Koc Rajah. It is 
curious that the Kuc Bihar chronicle should speak of the Gaur Pasha’s 
taking refuge with the Faringhis (Mr. Gait’s paper, p. 291) and that 
Dr. Wise should mention the tradition that ‘Isa fled to Chittagong. 
Daud Khan certainly never did this, and indeed in his time there were 
probably no Faringhi settlements to fly to. 
Postscript. 
Katrabuh is probably identical with the Catebarry of Taylor, 
Topography of Dacca, p. 64, where it is stated that “ Harish Candra, 
one of the Booneah Rajahs, resided at Catebarry near Sabar.” This 
statement is repeated in the Statistical Account of Bengal Y, 118, where 
the place is called “ Katibari near Sabhar. In the list of fiscal divi¬ 
sions in the same volume, pp. 139-141, this is entered as No. 93 Katho- 
rabo tappe. 
I take this opportunity of suggesting that Dr. Taylor’s very 
valuable work should be reprinted. He seems to have been the real 
father of statistical inquiries in Bengal. 
I also take the opportunity of suggesting that the unintelligible 
southern boundary for the country of Bhati given by Abul Fazl, viz., 
“ South Tanda,” may be a mistake for Landa which in the Riyazu-s- 
Salatin is given as one of the boundaries of Orissa. I do not however 
know what place is meant by the author of the Riyaz. The passage 
occurs at p. 15, line 10 of his work; and the full boundary is Landa 
Dalul t<^. Bhati is sometimes regarded as being merely a strip 
of land extending along the coast of Bengal. Thus Colonel Jarrett 
describes it in his translation of the Ain II, 116, n. 3, as “ the coast- 
strip of the Sunderbans from Hijli to the Meghna.” But according to 
Abul Fazl’s description it was a very large tract of country, and its 
breadth from N.E.S. was 300 kos or more than Bengal whose breadth 
from N.E.S. was only 200 kos. Apparently it included the whole of 
East Bengal, together with much of Sylhet. The eastern boundary of 
Bhati is given by Abul Fazl as Habsha, or as Jasur (the MSS. do not 
agree), and Professor Dowson has rendered this as Jessore, Elliot YI, 73. 
But Abul Fazl calls the boundary a Wilayat or Country, and Jessore 
was not even a Sarkar in his time, but only an alternative name for a ' 
pargana. I therefore believe that the boundary meant is Jaintia which 
in the Ain is spelt Jesa Jarrett, IT, 139. Perhaps this may help to ex¬ 
plain Abul Fazl’s impossible northern boundary, viz., ya darya-i-shor 
