History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.143.2

v2.c41.143.2

He passed several rivers and crossed the Vaitaraṇī to reach Jājpur which was Persianized by all old writers into Jahāzpur. At Jājpur he describes the ruins of the palace and the musjid built by Muḥammad Taqī Khān, the Na'ib Nāẓim of Orissa, in the time of the son of Shuja'ud-dīn Muḥammad Khān. The musjid was built on the river. Motte goes on to state that Muḥammad Taqī preferred Jājpur to Katak. On the 3rd he crossed the Brāhmaṇī and entered the zamindari of Aurungābād in which was situated the celebrated Buddhist ruins of Udayagiri and Ratnagiri. He described the country between the Brāhmaṇī and the Gainṭī as the most fertile part of Orissa, inhabited by a large number of weavers. Jājpur was the seat of a Maratha *Faujdārī* which had become hereditary, as Jagu Pandit had succeeded in securing the post for his own son-in-law, Inkoji. The latter came to see Motte and told him what is very often quoted by modern writers about Raghuji I and Jānujī: "Śiva Bhaṭṭa supported the national troops with the plunder of foreign countries; Bhavānī Pandit with the plunder of his own." Motte passed through the fertile countries in the valley of Udayagiri and described the old fort of Aurangābād. He saw Katak from the left bank of the Mahānadī and describes the situation of that city. He describes the old Mughal fort of Bārabāṭī, which has now almost entirely disappeared. One Mr.