History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c38.20.2

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Aḥmad Beg raised the siege of Khurda and fled from Orissa² to Rajmahal when Ibrāhīm Khān, the Ṣūbāhdār of Bengal, was killed in battle with the future emperor.³ Shāh Jahān appointed Muḥammad Taqi Simoāz *alias* Shāh Qūli Khān as the Governor of Orissa but after the retreat of Shāh Jahān, Shāh Qūli was defeated, captured and sent a prisoner to court by Rāo Ratan Singh Hāḍā. Jahāngīr's last Ṣūbāhdār of Orissa was Bāqir Khān Nazm-Sāni, who was installed in 1627 and continued by Shāh Jahān. His term of office was renewed by an order dated the 4th February 1628 and he was removed by another dated the 24th June 1632. He did not reach the Court till the 13th January 1633.¹ After the acquisition of Khurda by Mukarram Khān, Mughal aggression in Orissa came to a pause for some time. A king of Mayurbhanja named Vaidyanātha Bhañja is mentioned in the *Rasika-mangala* written about 1655. The Vaishṇava saint, named Rasikānanda, went to his court at Rajgadh and was well received by him. He is said to have converted the whole of Bhañjabhum to Vaishnavism. Vaidyanātha was a contemporary of Narasimha of Khurda and died about 1630.² Jahāngīr records in the *Tuzūk*, "the province of Khurdah has come into the possession of the servants of the Court. After this it is the turn of the country of Rajmahendra. My hope in the grace of Allah is that the feat of my energy may advance further.