1922.) History and Ethnology of N.-E India. - at 
Dominco Muxta.—The latter is the Bengali 4& ‘ free ’ 
or it may be the corruption of another word meaning pearl, a 
(a) ALBERT | AUDARBARI.—Several explanations were 
b) Axois given for the name of the -boy’s house, 
none of which can be regarded as altogether satisfactory. 
The first was that, the name of his great-grandfather was Adu, 
which was said to bea corruption of Antony. The possessive 
form of Adu has been corrupted in Audar. “Father Altenhofen 
later informed me that this explanation was not, in his opinion, 
correct, and that Adu was a corruption of Adari, ‘a common 
Mnssalman name.’ Educated Hindus on the other hand pre- 
fer to look upon Adu as a corruption of Adarini—a female name 
meaning ‘ beloved,’ which is sometimes given to children whose 
predecessors have died in infancy, and. ‘who, to avert the evil 
eye, are deposited for a short time after birth, near a latrine, or 
chital (rubbish pit ) . 
An entirely different explanation is that given by Father 
Menezes, viz. that Audar is short for Havildar after one of the 
boy’s ancestors who served the mission as tax-collector. A 
more possible alternative to this latter explanation would seem 
to be that the name is a corruption of Howladar, the common 
term for a petty Talukdar in Eastern Bengal. 
Atots, the name of the second boy, is nother form of the 
Christian a ‘Aloysius’. 
ny Pocua.—This latter word is a well-known nick- 
name in Bastar Bengal both amengst Muhammadans and 
Hindus. Itissimply the Bengali %5\( ‘sick’ or ‘ rotten ’) and is 
given to a boy whose elder brothers have died in infancy, toavoid 
the further influence of evil spirits. The Hashnabad Christians 
who were present all admitted that the boy’s parents had previ- 
ously had children who had died in infancy, but denied that thev 
believed in evil spirits. That they do, however, is beyond 
question, and those who know them best agree that they often 
show themselves to be still as superstitious as the most ignorant 
among their Hindu or Muhammadan neighbours. 
6°) ace ag PESHKARBARI.—Father Menezes in- 
ie ormed me that the first Christian 
name is a an of Callisthe while Trinatus is the Latin- 
ised form of T'rindade—the Portuguese for Trinity. As for 
the house name, the priests in the Christian settlement at 
Nagori (near Kaliganj on the Lakhya River) still employ a 
servant called a Peshkar, or Dewan, in Zamindari matters. 
This man acts as a sort of confidential clerk or secretary.! 
The name of the boy’s house seems therefore, to show that a 
similar officer was once used in the Hashnabad Zemindari. Or, 

‘* Peshkar: is one who puts up papers — a king or Court. 
tues has the same meaning ”’ (M.M. H. P. Shastri). 
