
25. Father A. Monserrate, S.J. and Capt. F. Wilford. 
A note by tHE Rev. H. Hosten, S.J. 
In Asiatick Researches, Vol. IX (Calcutta, 1807), among 
the errata and addenda, I find that the following passage, 
which should have been added to p. 81, line 18, ie. at the end 
of Wilford’s essay on Anu-Gangam, or the Gangetic Provinces, 
and more particularly of Magadha, contains a reference to 
Monserrate which T overlooked in my edition of Monserrate’s 
Mongolicae Legationis Commentarius (Memoirs A.S.B., Vol. 11, 
No. 9). It should have been inserted there at p. 695, after my 
fifth quotation from Wilford’s writings. 
The new passage runs thus :— 
“The Magas in Bengal are mentioned by Pliny under the 
name of Macca-Calingas. It appears from the context that the 
upper part of the Bay of Bengal was divided into three parts, 
called in general Calinga, or the sea-shore in Sanscrit, from its 
abounding with creeks. West Calinga extended from the river 
of Cuttaca! to the western mouth of the Ganges.’ In an island 
of the Ganges, amplae magnitudinis, of very great magnitude. 
and of course the Delta, was a single nation called Modo-Galica 
and Modo-Galenca, from the Sanscrit Madhya-Calinga, or mid- 
dle Calinga: then came the Macco-Calingas, or the Magas of 
Chittigong,’ from Maga-Calinga. The Magas or Mugs main- 
tained themselves as an independent tribe in the Delta for a 
long time ; and they were at last expelled by the Mosul 
and the Rajas of Tipera, about the beginning of the 5 oe 
century, as mentioned by P. Monserrat. Through the wed 
Empire, Arracan and in Chittigong the Priests ouly oF ca = 
Magas according to Col. Symes: butin Chittigong rhe cate 
countries, the name of Muga is also attributed to the w 
tribe.”’ 
Wi : Fr, Monserrate’s name : 
Wilford adds the following note to Fr Igo dicuntur Mogi, 
“*Gens vero Modo-Galica, ii qui vu 
tivumpulsi Arracani consistunt. re ion.”’ 
Mongolica, vol. the Ist, p. 19., a manuscript in my possession. 
q o 
(see Asiatick Researches, vol XIV, 1822, p. 08; A7N 
the Ancient Geography of India). There Wilford said in no 
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