Indian Antiquary Vol 03

SR No.: 032495
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 420
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[AUGUST, 1874.
Turk (i.e. Tartar or Mongoloid) physiognomy is remarkable. The Silhet peasantry now, if I can trust a thirty years old recollection, are quite Caucasianized. But the remarkable predominance of Muhammadanism among them is probably due to the zeal of Jalaluddin.
The Azrak River is no doubt the Surma, by descending which the traveller would come direct upon Sunarga nw, the once famous capital of Eastern Bengal. His description of the river attributes far more life to the population on its banks, and a more definite aspect of terra firma to the soil, than they showed about 1841-43; and this is curious in connexion with Mr. Fer
gusson's suggestion of the possible connexion of the great depression of the Silhet Jhils through which the Surma passes, with the elevation of the Mad h û pûr Jangal, that singular tract of red hillocks (tilas in fact) which covers an area of probably more than 1,000 square miles, immediately to the north of Dhaka.*
In Bengal we sometimes used to speak of certain brethren as "the Benighted." Bnt of Bengal proper how little have we known! We have not had much light to boast of in that quarter till Mr. Blochmann began to shed a little.
Palermo, April 7th, 1874.
MEDLÆVAL PORTS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN INDIA, &c., NAMED IN
THE TOHFAT-AL-MAJÂHIDÍN.
BY COL. H. YULE, C.B., PALERMO. The Arabic work on the History of the Ma-, with Kananur, Fandaraina, Dharmapatan, &c. hammadans in Malabar, called Tohfat-al-Ma- I can only suggest Eddakad of the Atlas Map, jáhidin, translated by Rowlandson,t has been a few miles north of Calicut, but this name quoted several times in the geographical com- occurs in no list of the ports or principalities of mentary on Ibn Batuta's Travels in India which Malabar that I know of. has appeared in the Indian Antiquary (pp. Amen i Island, 151, 152. One of the Lakha114-117, 182-186). As many of the names that diyes. occur in it are of interest, and many of them Anderoo Island, 152, &c. &c. Anderot of also have been sorely mangled by the negligence Wood, Underoo or Underut of Admiralty Chart. of transcriber, translator, or printer, it may be B al eenkot, 70; Baleenkat, 88; Baleengbat, worth while to print this list of them, which was “in the collectorate of Shaleeat," 118. Bal. made for my own use.
liangot of Rennell's Map, Veleankode of Atlas, a The names are given alphabetically, as they few miles below Ponani. occur in Rowlandson's book. Identifications Baleerum, 71. Spoken of as a seaport are in italics.
south of Cochin (?).
Bangore, 54. Probably Bakanúr. Accanee Island, p. 152. One of the Lakha- Basilore. 154. Basarúr, Bársílúr, or dives. Akháte of Wood (Jour. R. Geog. Soc. Barcelore of old navigators. VI. 30), Aucutta of Admiralty Chart.
Beit, 71. Coupled with Baleerum (supra) (P). AdilAbad, 174. Mentioned as a harbour, Bentalah, 141. By comparison with apparently of the 'Adil-shahi Kings. I cannot the facts in De Barros, Dec. IV. liv. viii. cap. identify it. Their coast extended from near 13, this is his Beadalā, near Ramêávaram, appaDabhol to Chintakola, near Karwår. I
rently Vadaulay of the Atlas of India. Akdat, 59; Adkhat, 71; Azgar 120. Spoken Buduftun, 71, 157. Bodfattan, i.e. Puduof, apparently, as a surrall State, in connexion pattan, north of Calicut, one of the most
cations pointed to four places where, according to local tradition, Shahjalal had established his Pers. These were (1) Silhet; (2) Habang Tila, about 6 miles north of Silhet, near the banks of Chingri Khal; (8) Chor Goola Tila to the S.E. of Latoo: this is, I presume, the Chargola of the map just quoted, in lat. 24° 37', long. 92° 28'; and (4) another Habangia Tila stated in one letter to be in Toroff, and in another letter to be in Dinarpur Parganah to the south of Habbiganj. Habbiganj is in Southern Silhet on the left bank of the Bárak River, in long. 91.29'. Toroff appears in Rennell's map among the hills south of this. I have no
map that shows Dinarpur or this Habangis. An old Musalmán, en eremite, in 1864 still resided at Chargola," on the banks of the beautiful 8vind Bheel" (the Son Beel of Indian Atlas). "The illiterate Moslems around have a tra dition that the Plrs there make the tigers their playmates and protectors, and that boats ready manned start up from the lake for their use whenever they wish" (Pryse).
# Fergusson on Recent Changes in the Delta of the Ganges. Q. J. of Geological Soc. August 1862, p. 330. + Published by the Oriental Translation Fund, 1833.
De Barros, Dec. IV. liv. VII. cap. 1.