The narrow passage between the Rajmahal hills and the Ganges through which the Ganges road enters Bengal from Bihar; a fort at Teliagarhi and a landing at Sakrigali (board).
Banglapedia and the campaign board treat it as the western door of the Sena realm. Minhaj, as we remember it, brings Bakhtiyar to Nadia by the forest roads, not through this gap; we have not checked.
Who holds it
- Name
- not named
- Title
- Sena captain of the gap
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The campaign board entry only.
Lord in 1200
Lakshmanasena.
What the town holds
- The fort and the Ganges toll station
- The Sakrigali landing
How things stand that morning
A Sena guard post on the Ganges road; the gap is open.
Wealth
Tolls on the Ganges road.
Communities
Toll officers, boatmen and soldiers (general knowledge).
Walls and castle
A fort is marked by the campaign board; no description.
Trade and crafts
Ganges river traffic.
Places of note
- Teliagarhi: The gap.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry the-rajmahal-gap and teliagarhi-pass are "likely" or "contested"; the sources we read do not say where Bakhtiyar crosses.
Evidence: The campaign board entry only.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
Primary sources for Senas of Bengal
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- The Nasirean Generations (a general history of the Muslim dynasties), Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (completed 1260 at Delhi). The fullest narrative of the Ghurid conquest of northern India. Read online
- The Nasirid Generations: a General History of the Muslim Dynasties, Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (1259 to 1260, at Delhi). The Ghurid court's own history, by a man born in 1193 whose family served the sultans of Ghur and Ghazna. Read online
- Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3, Various (the Sena kings' chanceries), edited by N. G. Majumdar (copper plates of the 10th to early 13th centuries; edited 1929). The one-volume edition of the Sena copper plates, the main documentary evidence for Bengal around 1200. Read online
- Epigraphia Indica: inscriptions of the Chandelas, Paramaras, Gahadavalas, Chaulukyas, Senas and Eastern Gangas, Various (edited for the Archaeological Survey of India by J. Burgess, E. Hultzsch, F. Kielhorn, Sten Konow, F. W. Thomas and successors) (inscriptions of the 1180s to 1210s; the series ran from 1892). The main record series for the Hindu kingdoms of northern India around 1200. Read online
- The Song of Govinda, Jayadeva (late 12th century, by tradition at the court of Lakshmanasena of Bengal). A literary witness, not a chronicle. Read online
- The History of India as Told by its Own Historians: the Muhammadan Period, vol. 2, Various (Ibn al-Athir, Hasan Nizami, Awfi, Juzjani and others), edited by H. M. Elliot and John Dowson (the sources date from the 1190s to the 14th century; the collection was published in 1869). A one-volume anthology of the Arabic and Persian accounts of the Ghurid conquest. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.