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.
Kola-tîrior Cherukal Raja, whose kingdom missing his passage saved his life, and how was called Kola - nå da.
the junk on which his associates and the presents Bodfattan, though it has not continued to were embarked foundered before his eyes. He our day, was as ancient in name and fame as was left on the beach of Calicut with a piece of Mangalur; for it was probably the PUDOPATANA
carpet and ten pieces of gold. Hoping to over(New City) of Cosmas, as well as the Peude- take the vessel with his own goods, he starts fitania of Nicolo Conti. It was well known for Kau lam" by the river," i.e. by the backat the time of the Portuguese discoveries, but hag water. Either so, or by land, it was a ten days' now disappeared from our maps. It must have journey. Half-way he arrived at Kunjikari, been at or near the present Waddakard.
a place on a hill inhabited by Jews. This was As Dehfattan was between the two last, probably near Cochin, but I cannot suggest it must have been either Kananar, DHARMA- any identification. PATAN, or Telichedi, probably the second. One would expect to find some trace of the I fear that to follow the Moor in all his great tank, &c., but I have no account of the wanderings with equal minuteness would only place.
tire the readers of the Indian Antiquary; and Fandaraina also retained that name and I pass at a leap to Bengal, where the traveller some reputation as a port when the Portugueso arrives from the Maldive Islands, A. D. 1346, arrived. Friar Odoric calls it Flandrina; as well as can be made out, and lands (apRowlandson has misread it Fundreeah. parently) at a city called Sudkåwån, a large The Chinese resort to it is confirmed by one of place "on the shore of the great sea." The M. Pauthier's interesting quotations from the river Ganges, to which the Hindus make pilgrimannals of the Yuen (see his Marco Polo, p. 532). ages, and the river Jûn (or Jamuna), near this The Portugnese writers generally give it the place, united and flowed into the sea. vernacular form Pandarani, and the name, Sudk å wân, as a name, must stand for I believe, though not in the Indian Atlas, still either Satgaon or Chatgaon (Chittagong), and I attaches to a village on the site. Its position is was formerly disposed to identify it with the clear from Varthema's statement that an un- latter, which has much the better claim to be de inhabited island stood opposite at three leagues' scribed as standing on the shore of the sea, and distance, viz. the Sacrifice Rock. At Pandarani, was, at the time when the Portuguese first visited according to some accounts, Vasco da Gama first Bengal, the most important mart and port of landed.
that country.t I cannot bring myself to Mr. Kalika th requires no comment. Ibn Batuta Fergusson's belief that Satga on, nearly thirty says it was the seat of Al-Samari, of the miles above Calcutta, was on a bay of the sea Zamorin. The same prince is called in the Toh
in the 7th century even, I much less in the fut-ul-Mujahideen, Samuri. We often see it 14th, in spite of the countenance which Ibn alleged that Zamorin, Ceylon, and what Batuta's expression seems to afford it; but, nevet not, were corruptions made by the Portuguese. theless, I now think Satgaon probably the place But the fact is that in general the Portuguese which he describes, under the name of Sudadopted the terms that were already current kâwân, as not only a port, but the residence of among the Arabs and other foreign traders Fakhruddin, then Sultan of Lower Bengal. The frequenting the coast. It is also often said mention of the confluence of the Ganges and that Zamorin was a corruption of Samudri Jamuni can hardly be other than a reference to Raja; perhaps some Tamil scholar will say the mysterious Tribeni near Satgion, where what is the true origin of it. Barbosa certainly Ganges, Jamuna, and Sarasvati are believed to calls him Zomodri.
part, having united at the upper Tribeni of Prag. At Calicut the mission stopped three months, The Moor's unquenchable loveof rambling now waiting for the proper season to sail for China. impelled him to go to the hill-country of KâmWe need not repeat here how Ibn Batuta by rů to see a famous saint called the Sheikh Jalal
I see that F. Buchanan given both Tamuri Rája and Samudri R. ja as titles of the Zamorin (II. 894).
+ See De Barros, Dec. IV. Liv. ix., Cap. 1. Chittagong
was apparently the City of Bengala which has so much puzzled commentators.
Jour. R. As. Soc. N. 8. vol. VI. p. 246.