History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c31.18

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In the 10th *Aṅka*, *i. e.*, the 8th year of his reign, Mukunda Harichandana had advanced as far as the Ganges. It was at this time that the alliance with the emperor Akbar was concluded. When Sulaimān Kararānī heard of the advance of Mukunda to the north, he went with a large army and compelled Mukunda to take refuge in the fort of Kotsarma (Kotsamba according to Chakravarti). Orissa was now invaded by two different Musalman armies according to the chronicles, one of which proceeded straight south and compelled Mukunda Harichandana to seek refuge in the fort of Kotsarma, when the second entered Orissa through the bordering States of Mayurbhañja and Keonjhar under Sulaimān’s son Bāyazid. Kotsarma has been identified with Kotsimul on the western bank of the river Damodar in the Hooghly district of Bengal. According to *Akbarnāmā* and the *Mādalā Pāñji*, Mukundadeva had at that time yielded himself to self-indulgence.