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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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ordinarily to use either his right hand or his trenchant blade: but was content upon common occasions to rely on the club in his left, with which he actually knocked down two men in the affray that caused his final apprehension
The matchlock is in common use thronghont the Presidency, and, as far as I am aware, there
is no variety in its appearance or mechanism, although some barrels are made of Damascus twist, and some are rifled. The bore is invariably small, and the bullets used are frequently of iron. The best I have seen belonged to the Raja Ratansing Jadurao of Malegaum, near Baramati, and were said to be Rúmi.
پناه نورالدين
جهان
شهنشاء در عهد سلطنت
خانزاد جهانگیر بادشاء غازي و ایام صاحب موبگی
x و حکومت مدارالمهامي اخوند خان فیروز جنگ مولانا مرشد × و داروغگي حکيم حيدر علي * و امین ملک بنگ بندی پیر محمد و سري ویرداس x کاریگر سر مانا تہہ x ساخت جهانگیر نگر سنہ ۱۰۲۱ یکضرب توپ برنجي جهانگیرے ، وزن جهانگیرے معه دنبالہ
۱۱۱ در عمل سید احمد ۱۱۴ ۴۱۹
دارشاع معرض
INSCRIPTIONS ON A CANNON AT RANGPUR.
BY G. H. DAMANT, B.C.S. Amongst a number of old cannons lying in Jahangirnagar is either Gaur or Dhaka, front of the kachari at Rangpur is one made of most probably the latter. The figures given as brass with a dragon's mouth carved at the the weight I cannot interpret, and should muzzle; it bears two inscriptions, one in Persian be glad of any information on the subject. and the other in Sanscrit, and has the word The Sanskrit inscription is in Bengali charac
Bundoola' written on it in English characters. ters of an old type, approaching the DevanaThe Persian inscription is as follows:
gari, and is very much worn and difficult to make out, but Babu Rajendralala Mitra has kindly given me the following transliteration and translation :
Sri Sri svarga Náráyana deva saubháre svara gadadhara sinhena yavanan jitta turdka häryyd me iman sampráptan Sake 1604:
I, Sri Sri Svarga Narayana Deva, lord of Saubhara, Gadadhara Siñha, having conquered the Yavanas and destroyed the Turáks, obtained this in the Sâk year 1604 = A.D. 1683.
He says Svarga Narayana Deva is a common title of the kings of Asâm, and that Gada. dhara was reigning in A.D. 1683.
The history of the gun appears to be that it was made in Dhakâ by the Musalmans in the
reign of Jahangir and placed in one of their The meaning appears to be :-"During the
frontier posts, Rangamatiya probably, from reign of the king of kings, protector of the world, whence it was taken by the Askmese in A.D. Nuruddin Jahangir Bådshah Ghazi, when the 1683. Lastly the Burmese general Bundoola Khanzad Khan Firoz Jang was Subadar, and conquered Asam in 1822, and probably this gun Akhand Monlana Murshid was Minister, and was amongst his captures; and in 1825 Asâm Hakim Haidar Ali Darogha, and Pir Muham- was recaptured by Colonel Richards, who took mad and Sri Harihardas Amins of Bengal, this two hundred pieces of cannon from Rangpur, cannon was made of JahÂngiri brass in Jahan- the capital of Asâm: it must have been about this gimnagar by Surmanåth in the year 1021. time that the word "Bandoola" was written The weight of the cannon with its carriage, on the gun. The gan was brought to the by Jahangiri weight, is 619, 5113, TT. The kachari in 1862, after the mutiny, when the master of the ordnance was Sayyid Ahmad." zamindårs were disarmed.
THE NALADIYAR.
BY THE REV. F. J. LEEPER, TRANQUEBAR. The Naladiyar is one of the few original works | The origin of the name is thus told in the we have in Tamil. It contains altogether forty introduction of Father Beschi's Shen Tamil chapters, of ten stanzas each, on moral subjects. Grammar :-"Eight thousand poets visited the
