488 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {August, 1911, 
district in which this grant was made, as Jajava was in grant 
A (p. 195). It appears that under him the local administra 
tion continued to be, as in grants B and C, conducted by a 
. Board of officials, in which the chief was the oldest official 
named Damuka. 
The mahattaras were the local leading men, as explained in 
my article (p. 213), and this title with the word vara added, 
visaya in 1, 6. The latter word is prefixed to the three 
mahattaras Vatsakunda, Sucipalita and Vihitaghosa, while 
Svarada (?) is prefixed to the mahattaras Priyadatta and Janar- 
danakunda. If one may venture a conjecture on this appar- 
ent distinction, it may be suggested that perhaps there were 
two classes of leading men, visaya-mahattaras and Svarada(?)- 
cee. the latter having a more local status than the 
ormer. 
aid of the Revenue Survey map of this region (on the scale of 
one inch to a mile). 
he names of most significance are Vydaghra-coraka and 
Gopendra-coraka. The word coraka in them is an interesting 
one. It is clearly not Sanskrit, for the Sanskrit word coraka 
means only ‘‘ a thief; a kind of plant; a kind of perfume”’ ; and 
none of those meanings are appropriate here. There can be n0 
doubt that it is the Sanskritized form of the common Bengali 
word »%, which is well known in its Anglicized form ‘ char 
scription are such as might be given at the present day, 
namely, ‘ the Tiger’s char’? (in Bengali ttcaa ba or T1e54) and 
