Swoop সহিত একমত নহি । আমরা তাহার মতের সমালোচনা করির পরে আমাদের নির্দিষ্ট চ্যাণ্ডিকানের উল্লেখ করিতেছি। প্রথমতঃ ধূমঘাট কোথায় the same as Chand Khan, which, as we know from the life of Raja Pratapaditya by Ram Ram Basu (modernised by Haris Chandra Tarkalankar) was the name of the former proprietor of the estate, in the Sundarbans which Pratapaditya's father Bikramaditya got from king Daoud, Chand Khan Musandari had died, we are told. without leaving any heirs, and consequently his territory, which was near the Sea, had relapsed into jungle. Bikramaditya saw that king Daoud would be ruined, as he had taken upon himself to resist the Fmperor of Delhi, and therefore Bikramaditya, who was his minister took precaution of establishing a retreat for himself in the Jungles. King Daoud was killed in 1576, and Bikramaditya, though he had prepared a city beforehand seems to have gone to it in person about this time. His dynasty had been only about twenty four or twenty five years in the country when the Jesuits visited it, and it would have bcen quite natural if the name of the old proprietor (Chand Khan) had still clung to it. Moreover, we know that Pratapaditya did not live always at least, at his father's city of Jessore. He rebelled against him, and established a rival city at Dhumghat. In so doing he may have selected the site of Chand Khan’s capital, and this may have retained the name of Chand Khan for two or three years after Pratapaditya had removed to it. Nor is there anything in this opposed to the fact that one Khanja Ali formerly owned Jessore ; Khanja Ali died in 1458, or about 120 years before Bikramaditya appeared on the scene, so that Chand Khan may very well have been the name of one of Khanja Ali’s descendants. But there is still more evidence of the identity of Chandican
- with Dhumghat.
The fair prospects of the mission, as described by Fernandez & Fonseca, were soon overclouded. Fernandez died on 14th
