Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c14.2

c14.2

There is a confusion regarding the identification of the geographical name variously given as Saknāt, Sankāt and Sanknāt in the manuscripts of the *Tabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī* by Minhājuddīn of Sirāj in his account of Muḥammad Bakhtyār’s conquest of Nūdia (Nava-dvīpa, i.e. Nadīā on the Bhāgīrathī in South-West Bengal) in the dominions of the Sena king Lakṣmaṇa-sena of Bengal. The text of Minhājuddīn’s work was published in Calcutta in 1864 and was translated by Raverty in 1881. A translation of parts of the *Tabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī* was also incorporated in Elliot’s and Dowson’s *History of India as told by its own Historians*, Vol. II, pp. 259 ff.