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ings are .... a warehouse and two large bottle- a bedstead and table, a bathroom and water, and connahs, 6 store-rooms, a cook-room and a garden, on frequented roads a servant, who supplied food with & Bungalow near the house."--Cal. Gazette, at very moderato charges. On principal lines of April 15th, in Seton-Karr, vol. I. p. 40.
thoroughfare, such as the so-called Grand Trunk 1787 :-"At Barrackpore many of the Bungalows Road from Calcutta to the N.W., these bungalows much damaged, though none entirely destroyed." were at intervals of ten to fifteen miles, so that it -Ibid., Nov. 8th, vol. I. p. 213.
was possible on such a road for & traveller to 1807:- In the centre of the garden is a small break his journey by daily marches without but neat cottage (Bungalo) from which grass walks carrying a tent. On some other roads they were diverge in all directions."-Buchanan's Mysore, forty to fifty miles apart, adapted to a night's run vol. III. p. 423.
in a palankeen. Circa 1810:-" The style of private edifices CARNATIC, np. Karnataka and Karnataka (adj. that is proper and peculiar to Bengal consists of a formed from Karnata or Karnata-Sansk.). In hut with a pent roof constructed of two sloping native use, according to Bishop Caldwell, this sides which meet in a ridge forming the segment word denoted the Telugu and Canarese people of a circle .... This kind of hut, it is said, from and their language, but in process of time became being peculiar to Bengal, is called by the natives specially the appellation of the people speaking Banggolo, a name which has been somewhat altered Canarese, and of their language. But no authoby Europeans, and applied by them to all their build- rity is given for this statement. The Muhammaings in the cottage style, although none of them dans, on their arrival in Southern India, found have the proper shape, and many of them are that region, including Maistrand part of Telingana, excellent brick houses."-Buchanan's 'Dinagepoor" called the Karnataka country (i.e. the Vijayanagara (in Eastern India, vol. II. p. 922).
kingdom), and this was identical with the Canara 1809 :-"We came to a small bungalo, or garden- country of the older Portuguese writers (see under house, at the point of the hill, from which there that word). The name Karnataka became exis, I think, the finest view I ever saw."-Maria tended, especially in connexion with the rule of Graham, p. 10.
the Nabobs of Arcot who partially occupied the Circa 1818:—"As soon as the sun is down we Vijayanagara territory, and were known as Nawabs will go over to the Captain's bungalow."-Mrs. of the Karnataka, to the country below the Ghats Sherwood, Stories, &c., ed. 1873, p. 1.
| on the eastern side of the Peninsula, just as the The original edition of this book contains an other form Kanara had become extended to the engraving of "The Captain's bungalow at Cawn- country below the Western Ghats; and eventually pore," circa 1810-12, which shows that no material with the English the term Karndtaka came to be change has taken place in the character of such understood in a sense more or less restricted to dwellings down to the present time.
the eastern low country, though never so absolute1824:-" The house itself of Barrackpoor.... ly as Canara has become restricted to the western barely accommodates Lord Amherst's own family, low country. The term Karnataka is now out of use. and his aides-de-camp and visitors sleep in bunga- Its derivation is generally supposed to be from lows built at some little distance from it in the kara-ndlu, black country,' in allusion to the black Park. Bungalow,' & corruption of Bengalee, cotton soil which characterizes much of the region is the general name in this country for any originally so styled. structure in the cottage style and only of one floor. Circa A.D. 550 :- In the Brihat-Sanhita of VariSome of these are spacious and comfortable dwell. hamihira, in the enumeration of peoples and ings."--Heber's Journal, Oct. 11th (vol. I. p. 33, regions of the south, appears Karnatic in Kern's ed. of 18+4).
translation; the original form is not given, but is 1872:-"L'emplacement du bungalow avait Karnata.-Jour. R. As. Soc. N.S. vol. V. p. 83. été choisi avec un soin tout particulier."-Revue In the later Sanskpit literature this name often des Deux Mondes, tom. xcviii. p. 93n.
occurs, e.g. in the Kathasaritsdgara, or Ocean for 1875:-" The little groups of officers dispersed rivers of stories,' a collection of tales (in verse) of to their respective bungalows, to dress and break- the beginning of the 19th century A.D., by Somafast." -The Dilemma, ch. i.
deva of Kasmir; but it is not possible to attach BUNGALOW, DÅK, s. A rest-house for the accom- any very precise meaning to the word as there modation of travellers, especially travellers by palan used. keen dak or post, provided by the paternal care of The word also occurs in the inscriptions of the the Government in India. The matériel of the ac- Vijayanagara dynasty, e.g. in one of 1400 A.D.commodation was humble enough, but comprised Elem. of So.-Ind. Paleogr. 2nd ed. pl. xxx. the things essential for a weary traveller-shelter, 1608:-"In the Land of Karnata and Vidyana
