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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I.—History Literature &c. 1873

1873

All who die do not attain to the dignity of a slab and the ashes of several members of a family may be deposited under one stone for this is the custom of the Mundas and I found the Saranda people more Munda than Ho that is in customs resembling more the Kols of Chutii N6.gptir proper than the Sinbhlim members of the family. [...] As the monolithic monuments throughout the Kol country nominally bear no proportion to the cromlechs we must infer that the erection ea the former in the name of the deceased is a much greater and rarer honor than the construction of the latter. [...] With regard to Hargaris or Harsaris as they are sometimes called I think* it worth noting that the largest collections are found in the tract of country lying on both sides of thd Subanrekhi bounded on the west by the Clxutia Migptir Ghats on the east by the Ajodia hill on the south by the Singhblann hills and on the north by the hills forming the boundary between liazaribzigh and Lohardagga [...] The whole was under the command of Bureng Ndung the king's brother-ilaw who is called by the Portuguese historian g Branginoet.' Not a word in said in either of the native histories of Europeans being in the service of the See History of Burma race Journal As. [...] But the story of the siege is told in simple language and reveals the dreaful doom of the Viceroy and his family inflicted by the pitiless conqueror which is passed over in.silence by the native historians.t The account is as follows : In the year 1544 the king of the Bramas by sea and land " besieged the city of Martavam metropolis of the great gnd flourishing 46 kingdom of that name
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Pages
89
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Note on two Coins from Kausambhi—by the Honorable E.C. Bayley C.S.I. C.S.
109-112 The Honorary Secretaries view
Rude Stone Monuments in chutiá Nagpúr and other places— by Col. E.T. Dalton C.S.I. Commissioner of Chutiá Nágpur
112-119 The Honorary Secretaries view
The History of Pegu—Major General Sir Arthur P. Phayre K.C.S.I. C.B.
120-159 The Honorary Secretaries view
Notes on the Age of the Ruins Chiefly Situate at Banáras and Janunpúr.—by the Lata Mr. Charles Horne B.C.S.
160-i The Honorary Secretaries view
Studies in the Grammar of Chand Bardáí.—by John Beames B.C.S. &c.
165-191 The Honorary Secretaries view
Further Note on Coins from kausambhi.—by the Honorable E.C. Bayley C.S.I. C.S.
191-191 The Honorary Secretaries view

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