Zamindar Udaya, and deeming him a fit person to enquire about the missing young man communicated his wish to him. The latter, anxious as he was to oblige the great General, took up the matter in right good earnest and after some enquiry found the missing boy in the vicinity of Kalighat, whom he readily presented to the Ambar Chief[1]. Man Sing was highly pleased with Udaya and in the ecstasy of joy, asked him how he might please him in his turn. Udaya submitted that he was quite content with what he had, but as he every now and then had to move up and down the holy river, Bhagirathi, and would very much like to die on its banks he would be greatly delighted if he could get some places by its side so that he might, not have to draw his last breath in the soil of somebody else. The grateful Rajput hero gladly acceded to his request and with the permission of his master, the Great Mogul, which he duly obtained, bestowed[2] on him some places on the banks of that
- ↑ It is, however, stated in the last Census Report—on what authority the writer does not say,—that Jiya's infant son had risen to be the chief officer of Maharaja Pratapaditya, 'the hero of the Sunderbuns', and that when Raja Man Sing was sent down to Bengal by Emperor Jehangir to punish Pratapaditya and bring him as a captive to Delhi, the Mogul General's first object was to withdraw his Guru's son from his service which object, it is said, he carried out through the help of Jayananda Sudramani. There is, however, no reliable evidence to show that Jiya's son ever served Pratapaditya or had anything to do with him. In fact that son who had been residing somewhere near the temple of the Goddess Kali at Kalighat was found out by the Patuli Zamindar, Udaya, and not by Jayananda, as the writer says. And it was not Jayananda, but Raghudeb who for a signal act of generosity was for the first time honoured with the title of "Sudramani." The writer has also erred in stating that Jayananda was taken into the service of Emperor Jehangir as "Majumadar" (collector), the fact being that that post was bestowed upon him by the next Emperor, Shah Jehan.
- ↑ For the assistance which Bhabananda had rendered to Man Sing in conquering Jessore and capturing its king Fratapaditya, the victor had him granted the Zamindari rights of fourteen Parganas. The grant was made by the Emperor, under a Sanad dated in the year 1015 H. E. corresponding to 1605 A. D. In the Sanscrit "Kshitish Vangsavali Charitam" it is stated that along with the said Zamindari the title of Raja was also conferred on Bhabananda. But the matter is not free from doubt. At any rate the Sanad makes no mention of it. See Kartikaya Rai's book, pp. 79,80.
