Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c14.12

c14.12

The *History of Bengal*, recently published by the Dacca University, offers conflicting suggestions regarding the identification of Minhājuddin’s Saknāt-Sankāt-Sanknāt. In Volume I of this work, R.C. Majumdar refers to Saṅkaṭa-grāma, mentioned in Sandhyākaranandin’s *Rāmacarita* as the territory of one of Rāmapāla’s feudatories named Caṇḍārjuna, and observes, “*Ain-i-Akbari* refers to pargana Sakot in Sarkār Sātgāon. The name Sakot resembles Saṅkaṭa...........Saṅkaṭa-grāma is probably the same as Saṅka-koṭa referred to in *Vallālacarita* and Sankanāt referred to in *Tabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī*.”¹ It will be seen that the identification of Saknāt-Sankāt-Sanknāt with a locality near Sātgāon is as untenable as its location at Sātgāon itself.