Indian Antiquary Vol 27

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 87

MARCH, 1899.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. MORE IDIOMS FROM PORT BLAIR. for convicta, according to which men on ticket. 1. Total. - In common use among the con- of-leave must build their buts, was here set up by victs, who are constantly being counted for all the Government. sorts of reasons. Petty Officers are told off to 16. Hathi-Ghat, Anglice, Elephant Point, so count them in batches, and as each fnishes his called, because some Government elephants were batch he brings up his "total." - Total karna, once kept there. to compare the totals.
18. Nimak-bhatta, salt-pans. - More than 2. Dipatmant for Department: means the one place is so called because of a former salt Forest Department, that being the first separate manufactory on the spot from sea-water. department created at Port Blair. Dipatmant
R. C. TEMPLE. Sabib, Forest Officer. Dip&tmantwala, & convict told off to work in the Forest Department.
I DAGON AND KIACKIACK. 3. Sher sahib: sher shortened from 'over
HERE is a quaint and valuable contribution seer' from its likeness to the common Indian word
from Alexander Hamilton, Neto Account of the shér, a tiger. An overseer of convicte.
East Indies, 1739, Vol. II. p. 29, towards the his.
tory of this difficult word, which has been already 4. Singal, for signal=semagram. There
discussed, ante, Vol. XXII.p. 27 t. After explain. is an elaborate system of semagraph signals at
ing how Shah Shuja' of Bengal was killed and Port Blair worked by the Military Police.
plundered by the ruler of Arakan, he goes on to 6. Tikat, tikatliv, a ticket of leave, also its say: "So much Treasure never had been seen holder. Tikatwald, a man with a ticket of leave:
in Arackan before, but to whom it should belong a self-supporter. Tikat is also used for the wooden caused some Disturbance. The King thought “neck ticket" worn by labouring convicts. that all belonged to him, those that fought claim.
6. Parmosh, promotion. -- This is in oom. ed a Share, and the Princes of the Blood wanted mon use amongst the Military Police, and also some fine large Diamonds for their Ladies, but amongst the convicts, who are constantly being the Tribe of Leri found a way to make up the transferred from class to class on promotion." Difference, and perswaded the King and the other 7. Kilas, class. The convicts are arranged
ista are arranged Pretenders, to dedicate it to the God Dagun, in classes.
who was the titular God of the Kingdom, and to 8. Sikman, sick-man, used for a convict
depositate it in his Temple, which all agreed to;
now whether this be the same Dagon of Ashdod, when in hospital : hence for any human being in the "sick-list :" hence again for any Govern.
mentioned on the first Book and fifth Chapter of ment animal on the "sick-list," e. g., an elephant,
Samuel, I do not certainly know, but Dagun has
a large Temple in Arackan, that I have heard of, pony, bullock.
and another in Pegu that I have seen.” 9. Rol=rail, originally a railing, now any kind of hedge or fence.
At p. 56, there is given one of those useless
illustrations of the period of " A prospect of the 10. Rashan, ration. -The labouring con viots
Temple of Klakock or Dagunn." are all rationed. Bashan-mét, ration mate: i. , the convicts told off to help the cooks to keep
Again at p. 58 f. we are told that "there are two and distribute the rations.
large Temples near Syrian, so like one another in
Structure, that they seem to be built by one IL Chana-bhatta, i. e., a lime kiln, used
Model. One stands about six Miles to the for any place where one has once been set up.
Southward, called Kinckiack, or, God of Gods The name sticks, however much the use of the
Templo. In it is an Image of twenty Yards long. place may change in the course of time. Half a
lying in a sleeping Posture, and, by their Tradidozen spots are already so named.
tion, has lien in that Posture 6000 Years.... 18. Chauldart for shuldari, & native
The other stands in a low Plain, North of Syrian, tent. This is the name of two separate places in about the same Distance called Dagun..... the Penal Settlement, because at one time con- Assoon as Klackiack dissolves the Being and victs were encamped at each for a while.
Frame of the World, Dagun or Dagon will 18. Dadh-lain, lit., the Milk lines, i. c., a guther up the Fragments and make a new one." place where milch-cattle have once been kept. | Hamilton in the above curious narration, has, Two or more places are so named.
of course, mistaken the building for the object of 14. Namanaghar, lit., Pattern-house. The its dedication, but so far as the word Dagun is name of a village, a convict-station and some concerned, we may arrive at its pronunciation quarries, because a sample (namina house (ghar) from the spelling Dagunn.