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Supplementary Note to the Memoir on the Hodesum, vol. ix.pp. 694 and 

 783. By Lieutenant Tickell, Political Assistant, Singbhoom. 



Through the kindness of Major Wilkinson, Resident at Burra Nag- 

 poor, I am enabled to correct a mis-statement I made in my Memoir 

 on the Ho Desum, in which speaking of the " Surrawuks" I described 

 them as Bengallee Brahmins. They are, it appears, not Brahmins, 

 but Jains, or worshippers of Purusnat'h ; and are still scattered over 

 several parts of India. In former times there were many of them at a 

 place called Aring in Chutteesgurh, and some of their temples are 

 there extant to this day. 



Major Wilkinson describes the existence in Burra Nagpoor of the 

 remains of a large city in the midst of the jungles on the banks of the 

 Mahanuddee, the name of which was Seirpoor.* It flourished in the 

 time of a race of Rajahs of the " Ho Ho Bunsee" tribe. These were 

 Rajpoots, but the similarity of their name to that of the Koles of 

 the present day (" Ho") is curious. 



At Aring, Rajoo, and Dhunteree, Major Wilkinson fell in with 

 several inscriptions on stone, in a character unknown to any persons 

 in that quarter ; and I trust he will be enabled to fulfil his present 

 intention of sending some of these inscriptions to the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society ; where there is a probability of their being decyphered, 

 if facsimiles of them be published in this Journal. 



Note. — I hope to be favoured with the note of a tour recently made 

 by Major Ousel ey through his Agency, in which mention is made of the 

 extensive ruins above alluded to, and an interesting statistical account 

 given of a region very little known. iji 



* If I read it aright in his letter. 



