The Institutes of Akbar 283.1

283.1

This battle is one of the most important battles fought by Akbar’s generals. It crushed the Afghans, and decided the possession of Bengal and Upper Orísá. The MSS. of the Akbarnámah and the Maásir have تکروهی Takarohí, and تکروی Takaroí. My copy of the Sawánih has the former spelling. A few copies of the Akbarnámah have نکروهی Nakrohí. In Badáoní and the Tabaqát the battle of Takaroí is called the battle of بجهوره (vide p. 318), which may be Bajhorak, Bachhorah, Bajhorah, or Bachhorah. Stewart’s account of Mun’im’s Orísá expedition (Vth Section), differs in many particulars from the Akbarnámah and the Tabaqát. He places the battle in the environs of Katak, which is impossible, and his ‘Bukhtore’ is a blunder for به چتوا ba chittúa, ‘in Chittúa,’ the final alif having assumed the shape of a re, and the te that of خ. The Lucknow lithograph of the Akbarnámah, which challenges in corruptness the worst possible Indian MS., has ba chitor, in Chitor!