The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s5.414

v1.c17.s5.414

The Puri plates assign to Bhānudeva III a reign of 26 years.⁶ Several foreign invasions seem to have taken place during his reign. In *c.* 1353 A.D., Shams ud-Dīn Ilyās Shāh, the Sultān of Bengal, is reported to have invaded Jāj-nagar and there to have taken many elephants and much plunder.¹ The chronicle of the Portuguese writer Fernao Nuniz (*c.* 1535-37 A.D.) records a tradition that Bukka I of Vijayanagara (*c.* 1343-79 A.D.) ‘took the kingdom of Orya, which is very great.’² But the most important invasion during Bhānudeva's reign was that undertaken by the Delhi Sultān Fīrūz Shāh, *c.* 1360 A.D.³ The following interesting account of Jājnagar and this expedition is supplied by the *Ta'rīkh-i-Fīrūzshāhī* of Shams-i-Sirāj.