The Nāṣirī Generations 190.1.6

190.1.6

It seems most strange that those who have run away with the idea that Jajnagar lay east of the Ganges and the Megnah, in south-eastern Bengal — in Tiparah of all places — never considered how it was possible for Ulugh Khan, son of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Tughlak — not that monarch himself — to invade Taling [Talinganah] and Tiparah, if the latter were Jaj-nagar, in one and the same short campaign, or that Hoshang, Sultan of Malwah, during a short expedition or raid rather, could have reached south-eastern Bengal in search of elephants. To have done so, he would have had to pass right through, and return again through, the extensive territory of an independent sovereign equally powerful with himself [he had only 1000 horse with him on the occasion in question], and to have crossed and recrossed two or three mighty rivers, besides many others of considerable size, or he forded the Bay of Bengal perhaps to reach the supposed Jaj-nagar. Elphinstone, too, on the authority of Hamilton [Hindostan, vol. i. page 178], who says that "Tiperah, by Mahommedan historians, is called Jagenagur," has fallen into the same error; and, not content with this, even the map accompanying his History has "Jajnagur" in large letters in a part of India where no such territory ever existed! Hamilton would have had some difficulty, I think, in naming the "Mahommedan Historians" who made such assertions. The name of one would much surprise me.