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mati Gaurikuyari, Maharajadhiraj srimad-Chatrasimha, Sri: 
Sri Manikya Raya. In another language (9-15) : with all rights 
i ! dow, on the whole 16 Halas of land including 
Banachirakhala (attached to) Kharilagrama. with cultivators 
and tenants, (which were) formerly in my possession, for your 
maintenance (15-17). I have no right upon this land. The 
right of gift, sale and enjoyment is yours as you will (17-18). 
If at any time any one having been born in my line subjugates 
this land or any other person dominates over it, then he eats 
the food not to be eaten by his caste, and his wife becomes. as 
if, his mother (19-21). For this purpose I have executed this 
deed of land-grant (21-22). Dated the 17th Kartika, Wednes- 
day, the twelfth day of the moon in her Bright fortnight, 
Sakabda year 1692 (lines 22-23). 
NOTES. 
of Saivism in this eastern part of india. It manifests the 
vigorous influence exercised by this form of Hinduism on the 
non-Aryan Syntengs of the Jaintia Hills. ee 
It is noteworthy that though the Synteng kings of Jaintia- 
pur had adopted Hinduism they followed their tribal custom 
as to matters of succession. The society being matriarchal, 
the nephew (son of the sister), and not the son of the reigning 
king, was the heir-apparent to the throne. 
The villages Kharil and Vanasirkhala still go by the same 
names and are within the jurisdiction of the Jaintiapur thana 
in the district of Sylhet. 
APPENDIX. 
A Coin from Jaintiapur, Sylhet (Assam) 
This coin is in the possession of the ‘ raja”’ of hase Se 
and is dated Sakabda 1653 (A.D. 1731). (Sir) Edward Gat 
also notices a coin of this year in the J.A.S.B., 1899, Lips 
LXIV, part 1, page 243, and ascribes it to the aot “d 
Badagosayi Simha, the king whose inscription 1s publishe 
herewith. ‘ 
The characters are Bengali and the language Sanskrit. 
