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the right bank of the Surma. In the Ain, we find, indeed, under Sirkar 
Sunnargaon, a Mahall Mu’azzampur, the chief town of which lies between 
the Brahmaputra and the Lak’hia and bears the same name. The present 
inhabitants, as Dr. Wise tells me, know nothing of its ancient renown; 
and the only old building is a ruinous dargah, called after a saint Shah 
Langar, the impression of whose foot draws crowds of pilgrims about 
the time of the Td ulfitr festival. The saint is said to have come from Egypt. 
The thanah Laur is also mentioned in the A'in as a Mahall of Sirkar 
Silhat, which consisted of Partabgarh ; Panchkhand ; Banyaneliang ; Bajua 
Bayaju (?) ; Jaintia ; PXaweli Silhat; Satrk’handal; Laud and Harinagar. 
The author of the Haft Iqlim calls Silhat repeatedly 'y m Srthat, and 
this forms explains perhaps the 4 Rein o Sirote,’ which De Barros and Blaev 
give instead of 4 Silhat’ ( vide PI. IV). The town of Sirote is correctly 
placed on the right bank of the Surma, which leaves no doubt as to the 
identity of both names. 
K a m r u p, which also appears under the names of Kamrud, Kamru, 
and Kanwrd, is often mentioned together with Kamata.f The Brahmaputra 
which Xbn Bat Utah calls the 4 Blue River’, is correctly described by the old 
traveller as coming from the mountains of ICamrup. De Barros, however, 
and Blaev give the river the name of Caor, and show it as flowing from the 
Reino de Caor, north of Comota and Sirote. Wilford identifies Caor with 
44 Gcda or Gfaur, i. e. Gorganw,” meaning G’hargaon, the capital of A'sam. 
But G’hargaon (which is the correct spelling) was only built by Chu-klun- 
pha, between A. D. 1549 and 1563, i. e. at a time when the materials had 
long been sent to Europe from which De Barros in Lisbon wrote his book. 
It seems, therefore, more natural to compare 4 Caor’ either with 4 Gaur,’ 
the old name of northern Silhat, and which under the form of Gor is placed 
by Blaev north of Bengal, or with the name of the Garos who inhabit the 
hills near the bend of the Brahmaputra. J 
The south-east frontier was T ip a rah, or Tripura, spelt on old Muham¬ 
madan inscriptions Tfur ah, whence perhaps the form Tipora given by De 
Barros and Blaev. Abulfazl, in the Ain i Akbari, says—•“ Tiparah is inde¬ 
pendent ; its king is Bijai Manik. The kings all bear the name of Manik,§ 
* So at least according to some MSS. Vide my test edition, p. 406, wliere 
Jl is a misprint for J Laur lies at the foot of the hills. 
f For Kamata vide below. Husain Shah is said to have invaded Kamrup and 
Kamata ; and the Ain says, Kamrup and Kamata are in the possession of the Rajah 
Koch Bihar. 
$ Regarding Wil ford’s identification of Sirote, vide Asiatic Researches,XIY, pp. 
387,436. The places which Blaev gives between Gor and Caor, as Kanduana, 
Mewat, &c., are mentioned below. 
§ According to the Rajmala, the kings of Gaur had conferred this title on the 
Tiparah Rajahs. It is impossible to reconcile the discrepancy between the Rajmala 
and the Ain as regards the time when Bijai Manik reigned. According to the Am 
