April, 1905.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
which I am capable of commenting is that relating to the time of 
Akbar and his father. At page 4 you speak of the last of the Lodi 
kings falling into the hands of Baber, the exact fact being that he 
was killed in battle, and_ the battle of “Baksar” a little lower 
: r no 
Akbari should rather be the Hutwa Ra; in the Ain and 
a 
Kalyanpore is twice mentioned in the Akbarnama vol. III. One 
Pabreics : is at page 370 which is that mentioned by you, though 
I do not think the original Persian quite warrants the statement 
that the imperialists drove Masum K. Faroukhudi over Kalyan- 
pore to ee The other reference is not mentioned by 
Blochmann, but is the more important of the two, for there ae 
Fazl refers to Ratan and the Zemindar of ere e Ie occu 
at page 397, Vol. Til. of the Bib. Ind. ed. of the Akbarnama, line 
three from top. er mentioning the iineieeid of Saran on the 
Aerpeng page (396) it says that a rebel named Nur Mabainaied 
take refuge with “‘the Zemindar of Kalyanpore” and did 
ae succeed. This pies is in the 28th year of Akbar’s reign 
corresponding to 1582 or 1583 and so you will see that your date 
of 1600 for Raja Kalyan Mail is too late by about 20 years. The 
7. Festivals, Customs and Folklore of Girlgit,—-By Munsui 
Guutam Manomap. Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary. 
This paper will be published in the Memoirs. 
* T am indebted a the een! biticted s resident Moulvi for the follow- 
ing information Te 
Si Muh wey the pea He "When Khani Azam Mirza Kook t 
ashe the boundaries of Jaunpore, he received information that 
that Salar (Noor Muhamm ad) came | from ‘pase by the way of Tirhoot and 
bank of the Ganges and Hersey to construct a bridge cone it. Under- 
standing this the enemy tried to take shelter under the z mindar of Kalyan- 
s arrested at Chelaran ( an paseny: : : 
2 There is no doubt that “ Kodah (Gawa? )” of Jarrett is Kuadi. Most 
of the names of the Pergs. in n airs wae by Abul Faz] have n — 
2 
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read by Jarrett. As for their correct re 
eular dialects of gtr in the Journal, of the reas ‘Society of Bengal, Part I 4, 
195. 
No, 
s petrrBlie lS G. N. Durr. 
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