The Institutes of Akbar 283.3

283.3

Now from the facts that the battle took place soon after the Imperialists had left Chittuá, which lies a little E. E. N. of Mednipúr (Midnapore), and that after the victory Ríjah Todar Mall, in a pursuit of several days, pushed as far as Bhadrak, I was led to conclude that the battle must have taken place near Jalesar (Jellasore), and probably north of it, as Abulfazl would have mentioned the occupation of so large a town. On consulting the large Trigonometrical Map of Orísá lately published, I found on the road from Mednípúr to Jalesar the village of Mogulmaree (Mughulmárí, i. e., Mughul’s Fight), and about seven miles southwards, half ways between Mughulmárí and Jalesar, and two miles from the left bank of the Soobunreeka river, the village of Tookaroe. According to the map the latitude of Mughulmárí is 22°, and that of Tookaroe, 21° 53' nearly. There can be no doubt that this Tookaroe is the تکروی, Takaroi, of the Akbarnámah. The battle extended over a large ground. Badáoní (II, p. 195, l. 3) speaks of three, four kos, i. e., about six miles, and thus the distance of Takaroi from Mughulmárí is accounted for. I can give no satisfactory explanation of the name بجوره, by which the battle is called in the Tabaqát and Badáoní (II, 194, l. 2). It looks as if the name contained the word chaur which occurs so often in the names of Parganahs in the Jalesar and Balesar districts.