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pent from the Parish Registers which are very excellently 
pt and deserve more careful study re I was able to give 
air during my short stay at Hashna 
52. AMRABAZIYIA Bart.—This is anid to be derived from 
Amirabad, a Bikrampur village near Narisha, which has now 
been cut away by the Padma. When this happened the people 
migrated to Hashnabad. The name of the village first appears 
in the Hashnabad Registers in 1780, and in 1844 there were 
still 25 Christian families there. It is evidently a different 
place from the ‘ Amidabad’ mentioned by Rennell in his Journal 
Rajabari (Memoirs A.S.B., Vol. III, No. 3, 1910, P. 38). In 
proof of the dialectic change of a terminal ‘d’ to ‘2’ (or ‘j’ 
in Dacca District, I may mention that when subsequently 
visiting a girls’ school under P.O. Amirabad, Thana Raipura, 
IT noticed that the girls wrote the name of. the post office as 
aifaatare 
53, S1taBaRI.—This is a nickname given to a man who 
was so lazy that he would not plant onions proper!y, one by 
one, but scattered them over the field and then went hom 
expecting that they.would grow. It is from the Bengali fe 
Chhita (pronounced aioe a careless sowe 
54. MuLxuar Barr.—This is wine after Muluk Chand. 
an ancestor of a family sailed Rozario. The homestead is other- 
wise known as Jaishariyar bari as Muluk Chand’s father came 
m Jessore. These names at first suggested to me the pos- 
sibility that this family might be connected with the son of the 
Zemindar of Busna, one of the Twelve Bhuiyas of Bengal, who 
was the chief agent in the success of the Augustinian Mission 
in the 17th century. Under the name of Don Antonio del 
Rosario he had joint charge in 1679 of the Parish of Noricol. 
This place was a little to the east of the present Janjira on 
the southern bank of the Padma. Don Antonio is not, however, 
recorded as having had any children (though he had a wife) 
and Hs probably ended his life as a monk at Nagori (vide note 
,p. 4, infra). Some waneee seem to have remained behind 
at Nor dca after the exodus to Nagori in 1695, and it is said 
that it was their migration to Hashnabad that led to the erec- 
tion of the church at Hashnabad. 
Another homestead is ealled Bhuyarbari which also sug- 

1 cited notes in his Journal on the 14th February, 1765: «‘ The 14th 
e which is situated on the south side of the 
iMultatgen}] Wieck: Lainie. once a remarkable village, lies almost half 
way betwixt ye Ganges and Megna, is about 28 miles 8.4W. from Dacca 
and 3 ESE from Rajanagore. Here are ye ruins of a Portuguese Church 
and of many Brick Houses.’’ (Memoirs A.S.B., 111, p. 39.) It would be 
The ruined buildings remained visible til! 1880 when the spot was swept 
away by the river (idem, p. 135). . 
