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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[NOVEMBER, 1903.
Elephants' teeth ; ann. 1250 : 8. o. Porcelain, Ellora; ann. 1684 and 1794: 8. v. Ell'ora, 262, i. 548, ii.
Ellóra; 8. v. Ell'ora, 261, ii. Elephant-trap; 8. v. Quedda, 567, ii.
Ell'ora; 8. v. 261, ii. Elephantus; 8. v. Elephant, 795, ii, twice. Ellore; 8. v. Circars, 170, ii. 'Eléphas; 8. v. Elephant, 794, ii, twice, 795, ii, Ellu ; ann. 1753: s. . Gingery, 801, i. 797, i.
Elly; ann. 1562 : 8. v. Delly, Mount, 235, ii. Eleusine Coracana; 8. v. Raggy, 571, i.
Elora; ann. 1665.: 8. v. Ell'ora, 261, ii. Elfenbein ; 8. o. Elephant, 797, ii.
Eloura ; ann. 1760 : 8. v. Ell'ora, 262, i. Eli; ann. 1298 : 8. v. Delly, Mount, 235, i. Elp ; 8. v. Elephant, 797, ii. Eli; 8. v. Delly, Mount, 235, i.
Elpend ; 8. v. Elephant, 797, ii. Èli; 8. v. Delly, Mount, 235, i.
Elu; 8. v. 262, i, 797, ii, twice, 798, i ; s. v. Eli ; 8. v. Delly, Mount, 235, i.
Dondera Head, 249, ii. Eliclipúr; ann. 1294-5: 8. v. Mahratta, 409, ii, Elu ; 8. o. Delly, Mount, 285, i. Eli mala; s, v. Delly, Moant, 235, i.
Elurā; 8. v. Ell'ora 261, ii. Elk; 8. v. 261, ii, 797, ii, 8. v. Sambre, 596, i. 'Elwai; B.v. Aloes, 10, ii. El-Kbārij ; 8. v. Carrack, 126, ii.
Elx; ann. 1270 : 8. v. Druggerman, 252, i. Elleeabad ; 8. v. Allahabad, 8, i.
Ely; 8. v. Delly, Mount, 235, i, twice, see 287, Ellefanté; ann. 1644: 8. v. Elephante, 260, i. i, footnote.
(To be continued.)
Baltan
NOTES AND QUERIES: NOTE ON LAW OF SUCCESSION IN THE
Indian Antiquary (for 1891). The principle of NATIVE STATE OF PERAK.
suocession appears to be that the heir-presumptive The law of succession in the State of Perak is the heir-apparent, and that having once become was that on the death of the Sultan the Raja beir-apparent he must succeed in his turn, the Muda became Sultan, and the Raja Bandahara right to succeed reverting to the next heir(Treasurer) became Raja Muda, and one of the apparent, whoever he may be. Dew Sultan's sons became Raja Bandahara. Thus,
It is remarkable that the custom in Perak supposing at some particular time, the succession
should, apparently, be of Sanskrit or Indian stood as in column I. below, then after successive
origin. In the Punjab State of Maler Kotla it is, deaths it would stand as in columns II. and III.
or rather was, followed by an Afghan family II. III.
which has a quasi-religious standing owing to the
fact that its founder was a celebrated Suff saint. A's Brother. A's Son
(Cf. the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVIII. p. 323.) BN Muda A's Brother. A's Son. Als Nuphaw. R. Bandahara... A's son. A's Nephew. A's Grandson.
H. A. Rose,
Superintendent of Ethnography, Punjab. The Malay Rajas came of a different race from the native Malays. They are believed to have
26th March 1903. come from India and a considerable number of Sanskrit words are found embedded in the lan
CORNAC. guage, and noticeably certain words relating to HERR is an early instance of this old AngloRoyalty. Some of those words, I believe, are Indianism. Yule's earliest instance is 1727. much closer to classical Sanskrit than similar
1894-5. The Queen was delivered of a Daughter words in the modern Indian Languages. Takhta
and fearing her husband should hate her because was one, I believe, and Singasara anotber. (See
it was not a son, she changed it for one the wife Marsden's Grammar and Dictionary.)
of a Cornaca had then brought forth. Cornaces The above note, by Mr. C. J. Irving, C.M.G., are the men that govern the elephants. Some Straits Settlements Civil Service (Retd.), is of said the child (afterwards the Emperor Akbar), interest in connection with the question of succes. thought to be changed, was got on the queen by slon in the State of Manipur, described in Sir the Cornaos. -Stevens, Translation of Faria-y Richard Temple's Note in Vol. XX., p. 422, of the Sousa, Portuguese Asia, Vol. II. p. 67.
