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bhaba, south of Dinajpur. Close to it lies Gangarampur with its ruins, 
and the oldest Muhammadan inscription known in Bengal. # Lak’bnur,f 
the town or 4 than ah’ of the other 44 wing,” has not yet been identified. 
The name occurs in no Muhammadan history after the time of the Tabaqat 
i Na^iri, and the only hint given is, that it lay west of the Hugli, on the 
road, at about the same distance from Lak’hnauti city as Deokot lay from 
the capital—which would be the northern portion of District Birbhum. 
Minhaj’s remark that Banga was, in 1260, still in the hands of Lak’h- 
man Sen’s descendants, is confirmed by the fact that Sunnargaon is not 
mentioned in the Tabaqat; nor does it occur on the coins of the first century 
of Muhammadan rule. It is first mentioned in the Tarikh i Barani as 
the residence, during Balban’s reign, of an independent Bai; but under 
Tughluq Shah (A. D. 1323), Sunnargaon and Satgaon, which likewise 
appears for the first time, are the seats of Muhammadan governors, the term 
4 Bangalali’ being now applied to the united provinces of Lak’hnauti, 
Satgaon, and Sunnargaon. £ 
The Tarikh i Barani, the Tarikh i Flruzshahl by ’Afif, and the Travels 
of Ibn Bat Utah yield but little additional information. Firuzabad, or 
Panduah (north of Maldaha, or Maldali) which General Cunningham sig¬ 
nificantly calls 4 Hazrat Panduah,’ or 4 Panduah, the Residence,’ appears as 
the new capital, and in connexion with it Fort Ekdalali, said to be 4 near 
Panduah.’ The actual site of this fort is still a matter of doubt; even the 
* Of Kai Kaus Shah, A D. 1297. Journal, A. S. B., 1872, Pt. I., p. 102. 
t Major Raverty, of whose translation of the Tabaqat two fasciculi have just 
appeared, informs me that all his best MSS. have Lak’hnur. The Bibliotheca 
Indica edition has AP"®? and often also \ and it was, no doubt, the last spell¬ 
ing that led Stewart to substitute Nagor (in western Birbhum), which certainly lies 
in the direction indicated. Outside of the Maratha wall of Nagor, we have a Lak’hi- 
pur and a Lak’hinarayanpur. 
J Barani, p. 452. He spells Satgaon, not Satgaon. It is almost useless to remark 
on the geography of Bengal as given in the Tabaqat before the appearance of Major 
Raverty’s translation, who has collated nearly all existing MSS. of the work. The 
Bibliotheca Indica edition is untrustworthy. Taking it, however, as it is, we find the 
following places mentioned—Nudiyah, in this spelling, for Nadiya; Lak’hnautij 
Banga; Hal (Radha); Barendra ; Lak’hnur; Deokot; Narkoti (?), 
pp. 156 to 158; (?), p. 158; (?) and (perhaps 
U*F W ), p. 168; Bangaon, p. 153; Fort Bislmkot, founded by Husamuddin Twaz 
near Lak’hnauti, pp. 180, 243. Besides these, a few places are mentioned on the 
frontiers of Bengal, as Kamrud (always with this spelling) for Kamrup; 
Jagannath (Puri) ?; and a few places in Asarn or Tibbat; ?, p. 263; and 
Jajnagar, regarding which vide below. 
The Tarikh i Firishtah furnishes the isolated fact of the foundation of ltangpur 
by Bakhtyar Khilji on the frontier of Bengal (Lucknow Edition, p. 293). 
