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F. S. Growse — Bulandshahr Antiquities. 



[No. 4, 



Words for " Water'''' in the following Languages. 



Lushai 



Tui 



Sontbali (Pergs.) 



Dak 



Kumi 



Tui, or Tooi. 



Mundari C. N. 



Daa 



Mm 



Tui 



Juang, Orissa 



Dak 



Kuki of Cachar 



Tui 



Kol Singbhum 



Da 



Do. of Tipperah 



Tui 



Bbunuj 



Da 



Hamali of do. 



Tui 



Sontbali of Manbkum Da 



Do. of Cachar 



Tui 



Nimar 



Da 



Naga of Oboepore 



Ti 



Mebtu, Bilaspur, 



Dab 



Do. of Sibsagar 



Ti 



Mecb 



Daee 



Do. of Haimong 



cbu 



Cucb 



Tika ti 



Do. of Hatiguria 



a cbi 



Magar, Nipal 



Di 



Do. of Miklai 



a cbin 



Cbipeng „ 



Ti&Di 



Manipuri 



Ising 



Vayu 



Ti 



Singphu 



Insin or Ntsin 



Gara 



si 



Augami Naga 



Dzu 



Kachari 



Doi 



Dafla 



Esi 



Hojai 



Di 



Niiri 



a tse 



Turki 



su. 



Abor 



a se 



Tibetan 



cbu 



S. Misbmi 



M'ji 



Bhutea of Towang 



Sie 



D do. 



M'ji 



Do. of Lo, East 



ecbie 



Songhtu, Burma 



(H)tee 



Mongolian 



ussu. 



Poi 



Telain of Pegu 



Te 



Dik 



Cbinese 



( soi, sbui 

 ( cbui, cbu 



Bulandshahr Antiquities. — By F. S. Gbowse, c. s., m. a., Oxon, c. i. e. 

 With a Note ly Dr. Rajendealala Mitea, Bat Bahadtje, c. i. e. 

 (Witb three Plates.) 

 The small town of Bulandshahr in the N. W. P. was selected in the 

 year 1824 as the capital of a district, simply on account of its convenient 

 central position. Since then it has thriven and increased greatly both in 

 extent and population, though still of much less commercial importance 

 than the flourishing mart of Khurja, some ten miles distant, which has 

 the further advantage of being a station on the main line of the East 

 India Railway. Its modern Muhammadan title of Buland-shahr (Higham) 

 has been given to it in consequence of the great height of the artificial 

 hill, on which stood the old Fort overlooking the stream of the Kalindi. 

 This river is a tributary of the Jamuna and is commonly known by 

 Munshis and European officials as the Kali-Nadi, the origin of the cor- 

 ruption being, that the two words are indistinguishable from one another 

 when written in Persian characters, and Kali Nacli or ' Black River' suggests 

 a more readily intelligible meaning than the Sanskrit patronymic Kalindi. 

 The older Hindi name of the town was Baran, which is still retained as 



