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This circumstance established the fortune of the family, for the king Oh ' d-dm be- relenting when it was too late, endeavoured to make stows a muafi grant of amends by bestowing on the brother Jamal-ud-dm 25,000 25,000 bighas on Ja- bighas of land, revenue-free, in Barhauli and the same ma-ud-din in Jarauli. ^^^ -^ Jarauli on the Bahraich side of the Gogra. The grantee found no difficulty in gaining possession of the estate on the south bank, but he found it no easy task to establish himself in Jarauli. A Bhar E,aja,Ghhatarsal by nameheldthe villages, and itwasnot until Sayyad Zikria, son of Jamal-ud-din, obtained possession of the fort of Jarauli by stratagem that the Muhammadans succeeded in making good their position. This is said to have happened in the year 1340 A. D., the year of Muhammad Tughlaq's progress through the country to of thia settlement. Bahraich, wherein doubtless lies the true explanation of the successful occupation. Date

Shah Tughlaq, was celebrated for several expeditions to Bengal, and from the account given in the Tarikh Firoz Shahi of Shams-i-Siraj Afif of the first of these campaigns, there can be no doubt but that the Sultan's line He is said to have marched towards of march lay through this district. Bengal to a point on the Kosi near its junction with the Ganges, but finding the passage difficult, he marched for 200 miles up the Kosi and crossed it below Chumparan at the place where the river issues from the mountains. Chumparun is situated in the hills to the south-east of Almora, and it may safely be concluded that the Kosi here mentioned is the same as the Kosala of the author of the Mira-at-i-Masaudi which has above been identified with the Kauridla. The point of crossing was probably near the Shisha Pani, and the description of the torrent of water which " carried down stones of five hundred maunds' weight like straws" gives a good idea of the rapidity of the Kauriala as it escapes from the hills. Continuing his march eastward by Rachap (Rajhat), Khorasa (Khurassur in Gonda), Gorakhpur and Tirhoot, the Sultan arrived in Bengal, where we need not follow him.

The next

reign, that of Firoz

Firoz Shat's march tbrough Bahraich.

Accompanying him probably on

this march was a young Risalddr by Bariar Sah, the younger of six sons of a Janwar ^^^chief whose home was in the fort of Bomgarh near Neemuch. The young soldier had joined the imperial army to seek his fortune, and it is not difficult to imagine him coveting a grant in the wild BaridrSahhiaRisal-

tracts of

name

Bahraich through which he passed.

In the year 1374 A._D. the Sultan again visited Bahraich, but this time with the pious object of paying his devotions at the visit to shrine of the martyr prince, and once again the Risdlthe shrine of Sayyad Salar in 1374 A. D. (J^j-^ accompanied him. The eastern portion of the district was at this period infested with lawless marauders, and Firoz Shah, looking about for some one to rid him and the country of the gang, selected the Janwar soldier and chained him with the duty. So speedily and completely did he accomplish his task that his master made over to him the whole of that tract of country in which he had restored order. Kroz Shah's