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tribes of Rdjdmehai, chly they-acted upon a larger, and of course upon a 
more honorable scale. ~ 
Turse forests are in general called Jhati-chanda, always pronounced 
Jhéri-chand in the spoken dialects, which signifies a country abounding 
with Jhari, or places overgrown with thickets, and underwood. * However 
there are many eRtensive forests of large and tall trees of various sorts, but 
under these there is no grass, and very seldom any” underwood: therefore 
the copses are most valuable, being fit for the grazing of cattle. 
'TursEe ten’ cantons included all the woods, hills and wilds of south 
Bahar, with the two districts of Surugunjé, and Gangapur in the south. 
We have. also the Dwddasérai ya, or twelve forest-cantons, including the 
ten before mentioned with the addition of Bandela-chand and Baghela- 
Chand. Another name for such woods and thickets is Jhanci and Jhancar; 
which the natives of these forests, generally pronounce Dang? and 
Déngar, according to the Cshétra-samasa, and to the natives also, who 
call themselves Dangayas from Bandela-c’hand, all the way to the bay of 
Bengal, and their country Déngaya. The other Hindus however call the 
whole Jhar-chand, and it is noticed in Dow’s history of India, and in 
that of Bengal by Major Srewarr,* and also either by Tavernier or 
Bernier, but supposed by them to be a town in the vicinity of Berham- 
pur, instead of an extensive forest. They call it Geharcunda, and sup- 
pose it to mean a cold place. In Bengal they call it often Jangal-teri and. 
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* History of Bengal, p. 123. 265. 371, 
