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This remark would seem to shew that, in the opinion of the author of 
the Tabaqat, Jajnagar lay somewhere west or south-west of the Bardwan and 
Hugli Districts, i. e. in Jharkhand, or Chutia Nagpur. 
The next invasion, on a large scale, was undertaken by the Emperor 
Balkan, who in his pursuit of Sultan Mugliis, about A. D. 1280, marched 
from Lak’hnauti to Sunnargaon, the independent Rai of which makes 
himself responsible not to let Mughis escape either by land or by water. 
From Sunnarg:ion, # Balban arrives, after a march of 60 or 70 kos, at the 
confines of Jajnagar, where Muglns is surprised and killed. 
From this remark by Barani, Stewart, Stirling, Thomas, and Dowsonf 
conclude that Jajnagar corresponds to Tiparah ; and the eastern parts of Hill 
Tiparali certainly lie about 70 kos from Sunnargaon. The Raj mala , however, 
does not state that Tiparah had the name of Jajnagar. 
Jajnagar is again mentioned during the reign of Grhiyasuddin Tughluq, 
when Ulugh Khan, in 1323 A. D., invades Talinga, Jajnagar, and Bedar 
and lastly, when Firuz Shall, after his second unsuccessful invasion of Bengal 
to conquer Sikandar, returns, in 1360, from Hazrat Panduah to Zafarabad 
and Jaunpur,§ where he stays during the rainy season. He then marches 
over Bihar to Jajnagar; arrives at Satgarh (?), the Rai of which retreats ; 
then comes to Baranasi, the residence of a great Rai; crosses the Mahindri, 
and goes for some distance into Talinga, to which country the Rai had fled. 
Firuz Shah then retreats, passes through the country of Rai Paiihan [Bir 
Bhan Deo, Lucknow Edition ], and arrives in Padmawati and Baramtala, 
great fields for elephants, and returns quickly to Karah. || 
Lastly, in the Ain (my text edition, p. 172, 1. 6), Hoshang of Malwah 
goes in disguise to Jajnagar, in order to obtain elephants. 
In these passages it is clear that Jajnagar represents a country between 
Talinga and Bihar, or, as expressed in the Tabaqat, west of Rarha, i. e., the 
* Barani, p. 87. The Bibl. Indica Edition has Hajinagar, Jajinagar, and (once) 
Jajnagar. 
f History of India, Vol. Ill, pp. 112,113. The Bibl. Indica Edition of Badaoni, 
I, p. 129, calls Mughis wrongly Mu’izz, and says that he had gone towards Jajnagar 
and Tarkilah (or Narkilah, as the Lucknow edition of Badaoni has). 
1 Badaoni, I, 223. Dowson, III, 234. Barani, 450. 
§ Zafarabad, which is so often mentioned by Muhammadan historians, lies on the 
right bank of the Gumti, a little below Jaunpur, which lies on the left bank. The 
maps give, of course, Jaffurabad. 
|| Badaoni, I, 247. Dowson, III, 312 to 316. Dowson has Banarasi, for 
Baranasi; and Firishtali (Lucknow edition, p. 147) has £ Banaras, which is the 
residence of the Rai of Jajnagar.’ 
Katak is called in the Ain ‘ Katak Banaras j’ and from the account translated by 
Dowson from ’Afif it is clear that south-western Orisa is meant, although the 
comparison of Jajnagar and Jajpm* * * § may be redundant. Rennell in his Bengal Atlas 
(Map VII) gives a Baramtala in Singhbliurn, near northern Mayurbhanj. 
