A5u6axCaM, kc. 81 



died at the court of king Mallalel, whicli should be 

 Mahd-ballala, or Ma-xallala, a very common name for 

 kings. I have sliewn before, that Cusum/ipim, Pad- 

 indvati, Camalu-vati-puf'i ate epithets, and not proper 

 names of places ; and applicable, and generally ap- 

 plied, to the place of residence of great kings. Pd- 

 tali-putra is never mentioned in the PurdnaSj or 

 Sanscrit books of any antiquity ; and its grammati- 

 cal name is Pdtali-pura. As it was the metropolis 

 of the empire of Magad'ha, in latter times, and had 

 also the emphatical name of Padmd-vaii-puri given, 

 to it ; every transaction mentioned, as having hap- 

 pened at Padmdvati, was of course understood of the 

 last known place under that name ; and indeed, it 

 was soon forgotten, that there were once several 

 cities of that name in that countrv« 



The Manias in Bens:al are mentioned bv Plin'Y 

 under the name oi Macca-Calingas. It appears from 

 the context, that the upper part of the Bay of Bengal 

 was divided into three parts, called in general 

 Calinga, or the sea-shore in Sanscrit, from its abound- 

 ing with creeks. West Calinga extended from the 

 river of Quttaca to the western mouth of the Ganges, 

 In an island of the Ganges, amplcc magnitudinis, of 

 very great magnitude, and of course the Delta, was 

 a single nation called JIodo-Galica and Modo-Gcdenca, 

 from the Sanscrit 3/adl/i/a-Califiga^ or middle Calinga : 

 then came the Macco Calingas, or the Magas of 

 C/iittioono- from j\Iao-a-CaHns:a. The Ma^as or 

 jllugs maintained themselves as an independent tribe 

 in the Delta for a long time ; and they were at last 

 expelled by the Musiilmans and the Rajas of Tipera, 

 about the beginning of the sixteenth century, as 

 mentioned by P. Moxsekrat*. Through the Bur- 



* Gens vero Modo-Galica, ii qui vulgo dicuntur Mogi, quamvis 

 nostr^ memorii a Patanicis et Tyhreris ultra Baharis rivum pul.>; 

 Arracani consislunt. P. Monserrat de legatioue Mon^olka, 

 Vol. the 1st. p. 19. a manuscript in my possession. 



Vol. IX^ g. 



