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ing to the mother of Tidivākara and others. In Bhātapadă 5 cow-sheds belonging to Simivāks and others. In Bhātapadá 1 house belonging to washerman Sirupā. 5 houses including kitchen and pasture lower down Bobāchhadā. 5 houses including kitchen there belonging to Dottharēţta (?). In Navahăți kitchen and other houses (belonging to) Dēgvimāți 2. In Bhātapada kitchen, shop-houses etc. (belonging to) Nivāra 3. In Pithāpinagara 2 houses (belonging to) Dyõjyē the boatman (navikā) and others. In Simhajara village 1 house (belonging to) Rajavigā the ivory-worker.1
L. 52. The language of a portion is not known) ......... have been given. Verses 21-22 : (the well-known imprecatory verses). The date : Jyaishtha 9, 4151, the era of the first of the Pandavas.
No. 50.-A NOTE ON THE VAPPAGHOSHAVATA GRANT OF JAYANAGA.
By R. D. BANERJI, M.A. The vishaya of Udumbara mentioned in the grant of Jayanaga recently published in this Journal is better known than is supposed by Dr. L. D. Barnett or Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee. Audumbara existed as the name of a division of Bengal and elsewhere in India up to at least the end of the sixteenth century. It is mentioned as a Sarkar of the şübah of Bengal in the A'in-i-Akbari. Blochmann read the name correctly as Audumbar, but unfortunately he did not live to translate the second volume of the A'in, and Jarrett, who took up the work, was not sufficiently acquainted with the topography of Bengal to recognise the difference between Udner and Audambar. Consequently in the translation published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1891 the name is given as "Sarkar of Udner commonly known as Tanda.". Blochmann read the name correctly as Audambar and included it in the Sarkārs to the south of the Ganges and the west of the Bhāgirathi. Among the Mahalls mentioned as being included in Sarkār Audamhar in the A'in there are at least two which bear the same name in early British Revenue Papers ; e.g., Akmahal and Kunwarpartab. The name of Akmahal was subsequently changed into Rajmahal, and it is now a parganah of the Sonthal Parganas District. Kunwarpartāb is really Kumārapratāpa, and bears this name even now. It is a parganah in the northern part of the Murshidabad district. There cannot be any doubt therefore that portions of Sarkar Audambar lay to the south of the Ganges and to the west of the Bhāgirathi. I have proved before that (ven up to the time of Akbar ancient or pre-Muhammadan names of Revenue Divisione con tinued unchanged. Rāmavati, the new capital built by Rāmapāla after the supression of the Kaivartta revolt in Northern Bengal,' continued to be & Mahall or Sarkar Jannatābād or Lakhnauti.
Writing of the Revenue Divisions of Bengal in the reign of Akbar, Blochmann says, "Sarkar Audambar or Tandah, comprising the greater portions of Birbhum. The name Audambar occurs also in other parts of India, e.g., in Kachh." After the publication of Blochmann's paper
1 A'in-i-Akbari. Eng. Trans. Calonulta, 1891, Vol. II, p. 129. The translator failed to notice Bloehmann's important contributions to the history and geography of Bengal.
2 Memoirs, 4. S. R., Vol. V, p. 14. • A'in-s-Akbari, Eng. Trans. Vol. II, 1891, p. 131.
* Journal, A. S. B., Vol. XLII, 1873, part I, p. 217. Audumbar was also the name of a vishaya in the mandala of Kilelijara and bhukti of Kanyakubja in the time of the Gurjars-Pratihärs Emperor Bhoja 1; See bie Barah plates of v.s. 893-Ante, Vol. XIX. pp. 15-19.
