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wood-cutters dare not touch. The barren women from the sur- 

 rounding villages come to bathe in a well in the tank, in the belief 

 that a dip in its waters would make them fruitful. Almost contig- 

 uous to the Lahona Khulna, flows the small rivulet which goes 

 by the name of Magra. The readers of the immortal work called 

 Kavi Kunkun Chandi are aware that Lahana and Khulna are 

 the wives of Dhonoputty Sadager, and that the Magra is the river 

 where his son Srimunto Sadager encountered a terrific storm raised 

 by the goddess Chandi to test his sincerity and devotion to her. 

 It is therefore believed that Copilmuni or its neighbourhood is 

 the place where the scene of Kavi Kankan Chandi is laid. In 

 proof of this, people further appeal to the remains of ancient build- 

 ings found buried in the bosom of the earth at a place called Agra, 

 which is about a mile north-east of Copilmuni, while the Lahana 

 Khulna and Magra are situated about two miles towards the 

 south-east. But the poet lays the scene of his hero's birth-place 

 at Ujaini, or Ujeni, which is the name of the capital of Malwa. 

 This discrepancy may, however, be reconciled by the supposition 

 that the place was formerly called Ujani, which was afterwards 

 changed into Copilmuni by the famous anchorite of that name. 

 A pandit suggested to me the improbability of a small place on 

 the banks of the Copotuc bearing the classical name of Ujaini, on 

 which I reminded him that the contiguous village was called Agra. 

 It is natural for a man to associate himself with great names ; and 

 if Dhonoputty Sadagar or his son Srimunto chose to call his mari- 

 time port according to the city of the Great Akbar, he might as well 

 designate his birth-place the capital of the romantic and heroic 

 Vikramaditya. 



March 27th, 1868. — At dawn I took a walk as far as Agra, 

 with a view to see the remains of ancient buildings supposed to have 

 belonged to Dhonoputty Sadagar. In several places there are little 

 hillocks of earth in the form of cones, whose apexes are about twenty 

 feet above the level of the surrounding country. In these lie 

 buried magnificent brick structures which have sunk entire in the 

 bosom of the earth, — time's all destroying hand having as yet 

 worked upon them in vain. In one place are to be seen walls 

 about eight feet broad, which probably once formed the wings of a 



