1838.] Account of the Moa Morah sect. 675 



It does not appear that any particular boundary was laid down for- 

 merly to the Senaputtee, or that any particular parts of the province 

 were considered as his hereditary lands. But subsequent arrangements 

 with British authorities in Assam, have given to him a territory, having 

 the Burhumpooter as its western and northern boundary, the Booree Di~ 

 king as its southern, and a line drawn south from Sudiya to the Booree 

 Diking is the eastern boundary. And the Bor Senaputtee is the ac- 

 knowledged chief of a tract of country, bearing a fair proportion in ex- 

 tent, to that which has been made over to Por under Sing. 



The Morans are quite a distinct class of the Moa Mureeah sect, and 

 occupy the same section of the country, as they did in former days. This 

 tract is situated between the Dangooree, and Debroo rivers ; they also 

 inhabit a portion of the south bank of the Debroo, but they do not ap- 

 pear to have extended to the westward of the junction of the Dangoree 

 and Debroo, at which place a chokey was situated, called panee cho- 

 key. The following are the names of some of their localities : Dor 

 Choohree, Huru Chookree, Casso-Jan, Hoolunga-gooree, Goee-Jhdn, 

 Dkea-muli, Bhotho-Jhdn, Jegooniguyd, Majoilee goyah, Beesa Kh6pa y 

 and others. In the days of the Assam rajas, the Morans paid no re- 

 venue, but as people living in a jungle, (which it would seem their 

 name denotes,) they were called upon to supply the raja's household 

 with different articles in accordance to the designation of their tribes ; 

 for instance, the Hathi Soongis supplied him with elephants, the Rom 

 Jogooyahs, with the coloring vegetable matter known in Assam, as 

 rom, Dharee booahs, with mats, and the Mo-Jogoozahs with honey, 

 and so forth. 



Further down the Debroo, there are many villages inhabitated by 

 the Moa Mureeah sect, but they are generally found with a greater pro- 

 portion of those who profess the Brahminical faith ; but in the wes- 

 tern portion of the country, many of the first classes of the Ahom po- 

 pulation reside, who are followers of the Moa Mureeah gohains. 



The jungles on the north bank of the Dooree Diking have been, for 

 several years, considered as a place of refuge for the disaffected, and 

 such has been the emigration (from well known causes), to the coun- 

 try between the Burhumpooter and the ^Booree Diking, that it is said, 

 there cannot be less than a hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants 

 there. This statement will be more readily credited, when it is known 

 that the whole of the extensive khats, or farms, containing the finest 

 grain pathars in Upper Assam, and situated between the Debroo, and 

 the Booree Diking, are occupied within these few years by the runaway 

 ryots of Porunder Sing. The whole of the Beheeah population of the 



