10 Remarks on the Sequel to the [Jan. 



tances relating to countries in India were frequently made. Pliny 

 alludes to a large island situated between two branches of the Ganges. 

 It was called Modogalica or Modogalinga, and is described as constitut- 

 ing the territory of a separate people or nation. According to Wilford, 

 the upper part of the Bay of Bengal was divided into three parts, called 

 in general Calinga, or the sea shore in Sanscrit, from its abounding with 

 creeks. Modo-Galenca or Galinga from the Sanscrit Madhya Calinga, 

 or middle Calinga, comprised the Delta of the Ganges ; the country 

 between Cuttack and the western branches of the Ganges being the 

 western Calinga, and Arracan or the country of the Mughs the 

 eastern one (Errata et Addenda As. Res. Vol. IX.). Madukali, sup- 

 posed to signify Madhas creek, seems rather to be synonymous with 

 Madhya Calinga, or the middle region of creeks, and to be identical, 

 therefore, with the Modogalinga of Pliny. Modukali is situated on the 

 river Borrassia between the Jessore and Furreedpore districts. Satore, 

 which is within a few miles of it, is evidently a place of great antiquity : 

 and, in all probability, it was the site of the capital of the ancient 

 Modogalinga. There are a great many ancient tanks in its vicinity, and 

 large quantities of bricks are still found at a great depth under ground. 

 There is also a very large mosque here, which appears, from its style of 

 architecture, to have been built soon after the Mahomedan conquest of 

 the country.* 



The mart, which derived its name from the Ganges, (i/xirSpiSv 4<riv 

 6/ulwvvhov tw irorafxu) 6 Tayyr]s) appears from the circumstance of the fine 

 Gangetic muslins being mentioned as an export from it, to have been 

 an emporium situated in the vicinity of Dacca, where the finest cotton 

 fabrics in all India have been made from the earliest times. It is likely, 

 that it stood in the neighbourhood of Sonargong, situated about twelve 

 miles to the south-east of the city of Dacca. Sonargong (Suvernagrama) 

 is mentioned in the Sanscrit work called Jatimala,f as one of the coun- 

 tries in which the descendants of certain brahmins from Sacadwipa 



* This mosque is perhaps the largest in the southern part of Bengal. It has 

 nine domes supported by as many stone pillars, and its walls are of great thickness. 

 The date of its erection is not known, but it is probable, from its style of architec- 

 ture resembling that of some of the mosques of Vicramapura and Sonargong, that 

 it was erected in the 13th century. 



f See enumeration of Indian classes. As. Res. Vol. V. p. 56. 



