পাতা:রাজা প্রতাপাদিত্যচরিত্র.djvu/২১৫

P R E F A C E . Raja Pratapaditya lived in the reign of Akbar in the Jessore District and founded a splendid city in a place which is now part of the Sunderbunds. His Biography, one of the few historical ones we have in Bengali, was compiled 50 years ago as a text book for the College of Fort William. The present Memoir retains the subject of the former but in a totally different style. The work has been sought after in Germany as throwing some light on the condition of a Hindu Raja under the Musalmans. It mentions that the Raja's immediate ancestors lived at Satgan then a great emporium of trade, now an obscure village. They went to Gaur, obtained influence there with the king; Raja Pratapaditya received a grant of land in what is now the Sunderbunds, then a fertile populous district, but refusing subsequently to pay tribute, the Emperor Akbar sent an army against him ; he was taken prisoner and carried in an iron cage to Benares where he died.