The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine April 1911

Strictly speaking however the employment of the Bengal navy by the Muhammadan rulers of Bengal on the mighty stream of the Brahmaputra against the Kings of Kamrup and Assam takes us back to the very beginning of the58 THE DAWN AND DAWN SOCIETY'S MAGAZINE thirteenth century. [...] As soon as the rains set in the Rajah came clown from the hills and assisted by his own people who had of course submitted to Husain's son killed the prince starved the army and managed to capture or the whole of tlaem.3" The author of the Riyavu-s-Salatin also speaks of the numerous fleet employed by Hussain Shah in his expedtion to Kamrup and Assam. [...] Gait holds that this expedition is also inclued in the account quoted above from the Riya.s and that the two epeditions from Bengal in 1498 and 1527 against two different kingdoms lying in the same direction those of the Khens of Kamrup and of the Ahours further up the Brahmaputra) " have been spoken of as forming part of the same operations " p. 88). [...] 18-53 of March 1911 number of this :journal) SECTION TWENTY-EIGIITII As explained in Part Fourteenth of this series of articles we desire to relate in some detail the story of the erection and maintenance of hospitals and dispensaries in the island of Ceylon as part of the scheme of Buddhist civilisation that reigned triumphant in that land from the 3rd century B. c. down to the days of the Sin [...] But the institution of the hospital did not stand alone ; it was one event among others of no less importance in the civic life of the people—all having followed in the wake of the Brahmanical civilisation that came over from India in the 5th and 4th centuries of the pre-Christian era.