Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s2.43

c9.s2.43

⁵⁶ T.M.S., 188 has بجلانه and so have Badaonī, Ranking, I, 379, and T.A., I, 268. Ferishta, I, 162 (fourth line from bottom) alone has “he came to Badaon and crossed the Ganga.” The “Bajlānā” of the chroniclers was, therefore, near Badaon and can certainly not be Bijnor as suggested by K. K. Basu, in his translation of the T.M.S., 194 n. 5. Bajlānā is a misreading for Pachtana. It was a *sarkar* in Kol, Sūba Agra (Āīn, Trs., II, 186). It now does not lie on Ganga as the river has changed its course, but on “the old Ganga” in Kasgunj Tehsil, district Etah. Elliot, *Races*, II, 97. I.G. XV, 69.