Indian Antiquary Vol 26

SR No.: 032518
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 360
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[FEBRUARY, 1897.
GRANr.
Mar. Véhichcha nadi K hart river Boundary, East: I Vorivadraka
Baródra (*) Boundary, South: Chatuḥsari
Chosar Boundary, West : Å silavalli
A81A11* Boundary, North: Vinhuchavalli Vinjh015 With respect to the name Kasandra, often called Kasindra-Paladi or Pålri, it must be noted that it represents not the Sanskrit form, given above, but its Prakrit equivalent Kåsadraha, the second part of which in Gajarâtî becomes dhra or drá, as in Godhra or Godra, the representative of Godrahe. The modern Baródra for Vorivadraka, properly Borivedraka, furnishes an instance of the transposition of two vowels, which occurs also in other Gujarati names. Properly it ought to be Bôridra or Boradra. The change is in this case probably due to the inflgence of the name Barðdra, which occurs so often on the map of Gujarat. It is interesting to learn from the inscription that the river Khart was called formerly Véhichcha. Is a name like Vechh or Bechh still applied to any part of its course? The place of Püsildvilli is now occupied by a village called Kopra.
AN UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE FIRST BURMESE WAR.
PREFACE BY R. C. TEMPLE.
Preface. Some few years ago I purchased a copy of Wilson's Documents of the Burmese War, 1827, in a binding by Hering, unfortunately much injured, which had belonged, by the bookplate in it, to C. Hopkinson, C.B., the fact of the Companionship of the Bath being inferred from the device of the Order depending from the coat-of-arms.
At page 216 there is a MS. footnote of interest in the present connection. It is attached to Document No. 173 (B), which is an extract from the Government Gazette of the 13th April, 1826. This document commences quaintly,-“We have been favoured with the following Journal of the Proceedings of the Deputation to the Court of Ava" - and then proceeds to publish a diary of the deputation. It appears that on the way up the Irrawaddy, on the 28th February, 1826, the deputation met Mr. Price, the Missionary, and, after dinner, " there was a good deal of desultory conversation kept op amongst us. Just before the meeting broke up, he (Mr. Price) acquainted us that he had an interview with the King and Queen the day before in the morning; that great alarm prevailed on account of our deputation; that the Queen fell into hysterics, and that the King, on seeing him, had called out, Oh Price, save me': that this was caused by a false idea of the object of the deputation, it being said that the chief of our Hlying artillery was coming up, that we were spying out the road, and that, under the guise of a present to the King, one of the articles we were bringing was a musket so contrived as to explode without gun-powder.” Now the footnote above-mentioned is that attached to this last remarkable statement, and it runs thus: -“This was a very beautiful, well-made, and most powerful steel cross-bow, with silk strings which I had got made just before leaving London, in the beginning of the year 1824, by Jackson, in Wigmore Street, and which Sir Archibald Campbell requested me to let him have to form one of the presents to be sent to the Burmese king. I did so, together with a handsone new silver watch I had just received from Madras for my own use. - C. HOPKINSON.”
? In N. Lat. 22° 55' and E. Long. 722 45. • In N. Lat. 22' 55' and E. Lat. 72° 38'.
* In N. Lat. 22° 54' and E. Long. 72° 41'. * In N. Lat. 22° 57' and E. Long. 72° 4".