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348 H. G. Eaverty— Reply to 'Histy. and Geogr. of Bengal, No. Ill: pfo. 3 



Whether Bhatah, Bhatah, Bhati, or Bhati, with long or short a it 

 comes from the same original. In the Ain translation it is said : " Abul- 

 fazl gives this spelling in the ' Akbarnamah,' and says it means lowland 

 from the Hindustani <yV, down the river." The word is written in Hindi 

 Jtt&> and Jy&>. 



As to "the " stone" wall in the same paragraph of the " Contributions," 

 referring to note page 595 of my Translation, I mentioned that " I am not 

 personally acquainted with Bengal," but my Ain's words respecting it are 

 as follows : — 



«yjf 3*x&r ijjijj* i^f^» *»y G<jar ^^ }\ j-f^ j\^» ^ 



I wonder how any one would read that, the hamzah— s— expressing 

 the izafat being added to & even according to the " Tiirani " idiom ? To 

 express what Mr. Blochmann says of the stone wall, I should have expect- 

 ed to have found it written *y G &k? ^\j j6 y <jj| ^*^ ^(^ ^j^ 

 and then there could be no possible mistake even for a copyist to make" in 



In a foot-note to page 286 also it is said : " Major Eaverty mentions 

 [it should have added what I really did say at page 592] the Afghan 

 Zamindar of Birbhum tm&Jdt-nagar —the italics, I daresay, imply a refer- 

 ence to Jaj-nagar," &c— I daresay they imply nothing of the sort; and 

 the previous twenty. six paragraphs on Jaj-nagar, extending over six pages, 

 will show, to any ordinary eye, where I consider Jaj-nagar to be. 



Persons not absolutely acquainted with a locality may at 6000 miles' 

 distance, in the extreme west of England, and not having the staff of a 

 Madrasah at command, and on the spot, be involved in error by a clerical 

 mistake in a MS., and in proof of this and show that he is not immaculate, 

 1 will give a single instance out of many in Mr. Blochmann's own Am 

 lranslation, quoting the Ma'asir-ul-Umara, although he is in India. 



Pa p 422, vol. i. :— « Eegarding the town of Bhakkar, Abulfazl says 

 that it is called in old books Mancurah. Six rivers united pass by it in 

 several branches (sic) ; two branches lie to the south, one to the north. 

 Ihe town at the latter branch, is called Bhakkar. On the second branch 

 another town lies, called Lohari, and near it is the Indus." 



So, according to this, « Bhakkar" and « Lohari" are not on the Indus, 

 but near it ! ? 



; The following is, literally, what the Ma'asir-ul-Umara, says :-« Bhakar 

 is tne name of a fort among the erections of former times-in old books 

 tney write it Mansurah-and all the six northern rivers [♦. e. the Indus 

 ana tne J^anj-ab], having become one, pass by it-one portion passing on 

 the southern side, and one part on the northern. The kashahs named lak- 

 nar-^^- a town on one bank of the river, and another town, known as 



