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mentioned below, granted in the names the same date, is found on a stone of the Jagat Seths as head of the foot-print in a temple on the Rajgir Jain Community in Bengal in con- Hills being No. 260 of my volume. nection with their sacred places, there This mentions both the name of the does not exist any image or foot- gotra of the family as well as the print on Paresnath Hills with Prakrit names of Jagat Seth Fateh Chand, his or Sanskrit inscription mentioning the son Anand Chand and his grandson names of any of the Jagat Seths. My Mahatap Rai with his wife Jagat Seresearch, however, has revealed the thani Sringar Devi, the donor. There name of that religious lady, Manik is another slightly earlier inscription Devi, in the pedestal of a silver image (No. 86) of V. S. 1811 (1754 A. D.) preserved in the family temple of the It gives names of three generations Jagat Seths at Mahimapur with the from Sabha Chand of Gokhru gotra name of her husband Seth Manik
Manik
to Muhkam si
to Muhkam Singh, ancestors of late Chand. This inscription is dated V.S. Raja Shiva Prashad, C. S. I. of 1776 (1719 A. D.). It is published Benares. Sabha Chand is son of Rai as No. 76 in my valume of " Jaina Udai Chand of Agra, father of the Inscriptions"-P. I, (P. 19). Two first Jagat Seth Fateh Chand, taken inscriptions Nos. 59 & 60 (Ex. E & in adoption by his maternal grandF) bearing the same date V. S. 1830 father. Seth Manik Chand. Udai Chand (1774 A. D.) are from the pedestals married Dhan Bai the only sister of of two beautiful massive Jaina images Seth Manik Chand and daughter to of black stone, worshipped in Kirat Shah Hiranand who first settled in bagh temple, about a mile north of Patna. I have seen his charming resiTiagani in the District of Murshid. dence and Kuthi (place of business) abad Both of them mention names of situated on the bank of the river Lagat Seth Fateh Chand of Gelrha Ganges at Patna. His son Seth Manik gotra, his son Seth Anand Chand and Chand who removed from Patna with his daughter Ajabo Bai who is mar- his adopted son, Fateh Chand, open
ried to Udai Chand, son of Kamal ed his firm at Dacca in V. S. 1757 · Nayan of Gandhi gotra. Two other
li gotra. TWO other (1700 A. D.) and with the change of inscriptions Nos. 61 & 62 (Ex. G &
04 (EX. G & capital finally settled at Mahimapur H) of the same date are from foot- in Murshidabad. With the transfer of prints in the same temple and give the seat of Governmint from Murshidnames of Kamal Nayan, Udai Chand abad to Calcutta, the Seths had their and Ajobo Bai only. The next im firm opened in Calcutta in the centre portant inscription (Ex. I) also of of business at Barabazar and the
