Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c14.3

c14.3

Minhājuddīn says that, on the eve of Bakhtyār’s invasion, many people of Nūdia ‘went away to the country of Saknāt-Sankāt-Sanknāt, and to the cities of Bang and Kām-rūp; but Rāi Lakhmaṇa did not like to leave his territory’.¹ In Raverty’s translation, the passage in question runs as follows: ‘Most of the Brāhmaṇas and inhabitants of that place retired into the province of Sankanāt-Saknāt, the cities and towns of Bang, and towards Kām-rūp; but to begin to abandon his country was not agreeable to Lakhmaṇa.’² On the fall of Nūdia, ‘Rāi Lakhmaṇa went towards Saknāt-Sankāt-Sanknāt and Bang, where he died. His sons are to this day rulers of the territory of Barg.’³ In Raverty’s translation we have, ‘Lakhmaṇa got away towards Sankanāt-Saknāt and Bang, and there the period of his reign shortly came to a termination. His descendants up to this time are rulers in the country of Bang.’⁴