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THE INDIAN ANTIQUABY.
(SEPTEMBER, 1910.
Bandha: all the ornaments collectively worn by a man or woman. Used in Pangi for the ornaments (bdlu and kangan given by the boy to the girl at betrothal) ; luand, to put on ornaments, a form of marriage used when a widow marries her husband's brother on the liria day;- dend, to give R. 1 to the bride for her ornaments on betrotbal. Oharkh.
Bani : * village copse. Rohtak. Banjan: the egg-plant (Solonum melongena). Karnal 8. R., 1880, p. 123. Bankarila : (Momordica Charantia.) Gurgaon 8. R., 1888, p. 14. Banar: see bändr.
Bangat, vangat: a cash due payable to the Reja on a band or lot. Kangra 8. R. (Lyall.) $31.
Bānj-pa-dona: to put out of caste. Kangra Glossary. Bankukar: the jangle-fowl. Kangra Glossary.
Banna: a shrub (vitex negundo ). Hoshiarpur 8. R., p. 14 : * scrub (Tamarisk gallica). Rohtak.
Bannhnan, bannhne: to manage, govern, Bannbanan: a tying, management, arrangement. Bans: a fish (Rhynchobdela aculeata). Karnål S. R., p. 7. Bansa : a scrub (lephrosia pramila). Rohtak. Cf. bámsk, P. Dy., p. 95. Bansati: dried stems of the cotton plant. Of. banchat/t.
Bans-looban: a substance, sometimes coagulated, sometimes liquid, found in the cylinder of the nal bamboo; highly valued for its cooling and strengthening properties; also called tabashir according to P. Dy., p. 95. Kangra S. R., p. 20. Bant: a sub-division of the ban or sheep-ran. Kångra S. R. (Lyall.), p. 40.
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BOOK NOTICES. THE BURMES) AND ABAKANES CALENDARS, treatments of the matter, however, left us
by A. M. B. IRWIN, O.S.I., Indian Civil Service. under the impression that the Burmese calendar Pp. 5, 92, including ten tables. Rangoon: Hanth answered exactly, mutatis mutandis, to the waddy Printing Works: 1909.
Hindu calendar, so that Burmese dates might This work, a revised and amplified issue of a be treated as Hindū dates, and could be book by the same anthor entitled “The Burmese caloulated and verified by the tables and procesCalendar" which was published in 1901, supplies see which we apply to Hindū dates. That that # want that has long been felt by all who are is not the case, was shown in 1894 by Prointerested in the chronology of India and its fessor Kielhorn's examination (ante, vol. 23, surroundings. A few remarks about the Bur- p. 139 1.) of the six dates, capable of verification, mese calendar and reckonings were made by which are given in the Po-u-daung inscription Francis Buchanan in 1799 in Asiatic Researches, of A. D. 1774. But we were still left without a vol. 6, pp. 169-71, and by Prinsep in his Useful plain guide. And it is in these circumstances Tables published in 1834-36. Prinsep's obeer (Mr. Irwin's first book, and a work by Mr. Htoon vations were reproduced by Cowasjeo Patell Chan entitled The Arakancas Calendar which in 1866, in his Chronology, p. 48. And a few was published in 1905, not having secured general more details were given in 1883, by Oan- attention) that the present work oomea in so ningham, in his Indian Eras, p. 71, #. These opportunely. This is particularly the case
