The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s8.21

c5.s8.21

Jharakhanda—Chota or Chutia Nagpur, Kokra of the Muhammadan historians Madhu Sing, Raja of Chutia Nagpur, was conquered, and the country was annexed to the Mughal dominion by Akbar in A D 1585 According to Dr Buchanan, all the hilly region between Birbhum (anciently called Vira-desa the capital of which was Nagara) and Benares was called Jharakhanda (Martin's Eastern India, I, p 32) It also included the Santal Pargana (*Mahā-Lingeśvara Tantra*). Chutia, now an insignificant village two miles to the east of Ranchi, was, according to tradition, the earliest capital of the Nāgavaṃśi Rājās of Chota Nagpur, the descendants of the Nāga (snake) Puṇḍarika (Bradley-Birt’s *Chota Nagpur*, chs. I, III).