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or on to their backs. These Brahman's Såsanslar and interesting. Potesar Bhat obtained are scattered all over the country and are de- possession and he and his descendants held the tected at once by the large comfortable home- estate for some generations. In the reign of steads, the groves of cocoa-palms and fruit the bigoted Emperor Aurangzeb, however, Sartrees and the generaily superior style of cultiva- besar Bhat, the then proprietor, was ousted by tion. The cocoa-palm flourishes well in Orissa, the Raja of Moharbhanj whose territories adbut is not grown except by Brahmans owing to joined the grant. The Bhat applied to the the popular superstition that if a man of another Subah of Bengal who sent a small force and caste plants them, he or his children will die in drove away the kâja's troops. Before restoring a year and a dar.
the land however to the Brahman, he demanded "e 5 anka." The letter which I read this payment of the expenses of the expedition. The vas rexi by the Bhuyans as a 2 which it only Brahman in vain represented that having been very distantly resembles.
dispossessed of his land, he was unable to pay; “Mesha"-the sign Aries, and technical name the Subah refused rostitutien. Sarbesar then for the month Baisakh (see my note at p. 64 journeyed all the way to Agra where he laid his Indian Antiquary.)
case before the Emperor. Aurangzeb was no "Di10am" and "bá 1408ti." This is the lover of the Brahmans and paid very little attenOriya fashion of writing figures, the name of the tion to him, and at last to get rid of him tauntarticle is divided in two and the numbers writ- ingly told him he should have his land back and ten in between, the above forins stand for 10 be let off paying the costs of the expedition if diam, and 1408 bâtî respectively. Thus they he would turn Musulman. The Brahman rewould write 10 rupees, ta10nka 10 tanka ; sisted for a long time, but finding that the Em5 maunds would be máõna, 30 years ba30tsara, peror was deaf to remonstrances, he eventually and so on.
consented, embraced Islam and returned to “ Chaüdasa ashtottara" here again the en- Orissa with an order for his restitution to his graver has omitted the letter the should have estates. Since that time the family has been written "Chaüda sata"--fourteen hundred. As Muhammadan, and the present head of it, Ghulam the grant is in Oriya and not in Sanskrit per- Mustafa Khan, and his brothers are men with haps he meant the sa to do duty for saú, as the quite a Mughul type of countenance, probably short vowel is pronounced o, and Oriyas often derived from frequent intermarriages with Mucarelessly write so, no for sau, nau. The grant ghul and Pathan ladies. of so vast a tract of country to a single Brah- The archaic form of the letters in this grant man (1408 batis 28,160 acres) seems to sup- renders it very valuable as showing the gradual port the native tradition that Gahrada and the development of the modern Oriya alphabet adjacent country was at that time uninhabited, from a southern variety of the Kutila type. or at least only sparsely peopled, and this idea I would call attention to the two forms of the is further countenanced by the fact that the , also to the double , and the ; The king gives his own name to the grant, calling it appended and 3 are also very antiquated and " Purushottampur Såsan."
singular, shewing especially the absence of The reverse contains merely the usual San- all distinction between the long and short skrit formula observed in all such grants. and the gradual growth of the now somewhat
The subsequent history of the Såsan is singu- abnormal.
ON THE DERIVATION OF SOME PECULIAR GAURIAN VERBS.
BY Rev. A. F. RUDOLF HOERNLE, D. PH. TÜBINGEN,
PROF. SANSK: JAYNARAYAN'S COLLEGE, BENARES.
By the term Gaurian I understand the San- language, but have formed by a process peculiar skritic vernaculars of North India.
to themselves. l'he Gaurian languages possess a class of All Sanskrit and Prakrit verbs can be divided verbs which, though, as a rule, easily traceable into their component parts, viz., the conjugato a Prakrit or Sanskrit origin, they have nottional affir, the (verbal) base, and the root; e. 8., received from either the one or the other kathayati' consists of the affix ti of the 3rd
