The Nāṣirī Generations 190.2.2

190.2.2

but it must have been a territory of some extent, as it was ruled, subsequently, by a “Sultan.” A district of this name is also mentioned by Ziya-ud-Din as lying near Talinganah. Be this as it may, however, the following extract, taken from the Tarikh-i-Firuz-Shahi of Shams-i-Saraj, Alfi, Tabakat-i-Akbari, and others, will, I think, tend to settle the question respecting the situation of the Jaj-nagar territory: — 754 [Alfi, 755 Sultan Firuz Shah set out for Bangalah to reduce its ruler, Ilyas, Haji [Sultan Shams-ud-Din], to subjection. On Sultan Firuz Shah’s reaching the vicinity of Panduah, Ilyas evacuated it, and threw himself into Akdalah [also written Akdalah], “a mouza’” near Panduah, on one side of which is the water [a river ?], and on the other an impenetrable and considered one of the strongest fortifications of Bangalah [Westmacott, in the Calcutta Review for July, 1874, places Ekdala [Akdalah] some forty-two miles on the Maldah side of the river Tangan, and north of Gaur or Lakhnawati — “the later city of Gour,” as he styles it], and so situated that, in the rainy season, the whole country would become flooded, and not a piece of elevated ground would be left for the Sultan even to pitch his tent on. Another writer calls it an island or insular fortress. He came and encamped, according to one of these works, on the bank on the other side of the water facing it ; but the others state that he encamped his forces near the place on the same side.