288 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1908. 
V. VARENDRA. 
Varendra is spoken of in contrast with Radha. The name 
haeecics Hindu 
eriod, 
Kamauli plate of 
wanes (? 1142 A.D.), the donee Sridhara’s ; eaapeditent 
Bharata appeared in the village Bhara in Varendri.! Vijayasena’s 
eee of Pradyumnesvara temple (middle of the twelfth 
ntury) was engraved by the Ranaka Silapani, the crest-jewel 
of the guild of Varendra artists.2 In the Da ana-sagara of Balla- 
lasena (1169 A.D.) his guru Aniruddha is described as famous in 
Varendri tract.2 Radhiya-varendratk have been several times 
referred to in the Brahmana-sarvvasva of Halayudha (fourth 
quarter of the twelfth century).* 
In the Mussalman period, the extracts oe so ae a 
salma : show that Varendra lay to the east o 
mtr od geckeac the river Ganges. The Yavana females 
of Radha and Varendra are entioned in se a ~ Ganga 
plates of Orissa, stidiontiae that i in the tim imnhadeva 15 
(1238-1264) Varendra and Radha (N. nas Ge been in the 
within it. In the Brahmanda section of the Bhavisyat Purana, 
Varendra is oe ath as lying east of Padmavati, and containing 
towits: Pudila near the Narada river; Natari (mod. Natore) ; 
Capala on the Verte: Kakamari; and Syamataka on the Calana 
Bil. Roughly, the tract comprised sarkaérs Barbakabad and 
W. Baztha of ‘'odarmal’s rent-roll. 
Nothing is known about the head-quarters of this tract, 
although it was of such importance in old days as to give rise to a 
distinct class among Brabmans, Kayasthas and other castes. 
VI. TAMRALIPTA. 
This name, under various hairy appears in works of the 
riod. Originally it formed a part 
"Su as or Vanga, for it is not men- 
tioned in the group of five tribes said to have been descended 
from the sage Dirghatamas. But later on it formed a separate 
tribe, as is “evident from the references in the Muhabharata and 
Epic period, 



1 Ep. Ind., II, 352, ll. 37-8, Bhava-gréame pravisara-yasah Sasan-ogre 
Varendryam. 
Ep. — ws 8311, 1. 32, Cakhéna ee 
eee ae 
3 J.A.S.B., 4008, p. 158, _ a —e Varendri-tale. 
4 J.A.8.B., 1906, p. 176, 
5 J.a.8.B., 1908, pp. 120-1 ah 6 Ind. Ant. XX, p. 420. 
