142 Beply hy Mr. Beames to Dr. Mitra. [Nov., 



15 silver coins (Mogbal, 9 round, 6 square) from the Collector of 

 Allahabad. 



The Philological Secretary reported that a comuiunication had 

 been received from Prof. Max Miiller stating that an edition of the 

 Sarvanukrama was about to be published in the Anecdota Oxoniensia. 

 Dr. R. L. Mitra would not therefore add this work to his edition of S'au- 

 naka's 13rihaddevata, as had been proposed. 



The Philological Secretary read the following note bj Mr. Beames 

 in reply to the remarks made by Dr. Mitra on his paper on the History 

 of Orissa, published in the March Proceedings : 



With regard to Dr. Mitra's remarks on my paper on the History of 

 Orissa in the Proceedings for March last, I have one or two explanations 

 to make. 



The first remark is to the effect that I have ignored the labours of 

 what Dr. Mitra calls my " predecessors," Messrs. Hunter and Toynbee. 

 The fact is that both these gentlemen derived most of theii' information 

 from me, and it was not necessary for me to mention that certain facts 

 stated in my paper had been communicated to and used by them. My 

 paper is entitled *' Notes ", and does not pretend to be exhaustive. It adds 

 a number of new facts to those already recorded and is not confined to 

 Balasore. It originally formed part of a manual of that district, and in 

 consequence more attention is given to that district than to other parts 

 of Orissa, but sufficient notice of other parts occurs to justify the title. 



As to the meaning of the word " Pjalasore," when 1 first began to collect 

 notes for Dr. Hunter in 1869 the local Pandits informed me that the word 

 was Bala + Uwara, the youthful lord, i. e., Krishna. As I got to know 

 more about the matter I began to doubt this derivation. The word tswara 

 is as far as I know always restricted to S'iva and only rarely applied to 

 Krishna. There is no temple to the youthful Krishna in or near Balasore, 

 whereas in the village of Old Balasore (Purana Banesvvar), which was the 

 original place of that name, there still exists a small, rude and very ancient 

 temple of Banesvvara Mahadeva. 



S'iva worship, as we know, preceded Krishna worship in Orissa, and 

 temples to S'iva all bearing the title Uwara in one or another compound 

 form are found all over the country. As to the element Ban in the 

 present case the Pandits were divided in opinion, some holding that it was 

 from vana = forest, others deriving it from vdna =^ arrow. In favour of 

 the former I adduced the large number of names of places beginning with 

 ban " forest " all over Northern Orissa, while in supjjort of the latter may 

 be mentioned the local legend which places the capital of the legendary 

 king Bdna near Balasore: one mass of ruins in the town still bears the 



