APPENDIX A. 
Rajnagar and Euriculk. ( See Journal, pp. 31, 39.) 
I am indebted to Mr. F. D. Ascoli, of the Indian Civil Service, for the following 
information collected while he has been engaged on the settlement of the District of 
Faridpur : — 
Rajnaguv : — This place was swept away by the Kirtinasa river in 1871-2, 
and Euricule by the same river nine years later, together with Jaopsa pagoda. 
The ground on which they stood has since re-formed, and that course of the Kirtinasa 
is now practically dry. 
Rajnagur was built by Raja Raj Ballabh, who flourished in the second quarter 
of the eighteenth century. Originally a poor man, he acquired a large fortune 
as peshkar (agent) of the Nowarrah mahals at Dacca (lands, the profits from which 
were used for the maintenance of the fleet), and built a house at Rajnagnar, 
which was at that time a ( bhil’ or lake, called Bhil Deema. This he drained, 
and covered the site with extensive tanks and buildings, which were added to by his 
sons and grandsons. The most notable buildings were the temples Naba Ratna 
(nine spired) ; Pancha Ratna (five spired) ; Saptadas or Shata Ratna (seventy or 
one hundred spired); and the Ekeesh or Ekabinsha Ratna (twenty-one spired). 
A description of these with a photograph and several drawings has been published in 
a Bengali work, the History of Bikrampur, by Jogendra Nath Gupta. Old men of 
the locality remember to this day the beauty of the architecture of the place. 
Luricule or Noreekole .-—These names are identical, «r and *7 being readily 
interchangeable in Bengali. The old name of the place was Sripur Shahabunder 
and it is mentioned by Ralph Fitch, who visited it in 1586, as an important 
town, where “ great store of cotton cloth is made.” 1 Since the place was 
swept away by the Kirtinasa the land has been re-formed, and old men of the 
locality still remember the buildings, which were yet standing some 30 years 
ago. The principal buildings were a mosque, a ghat or landing place, and a 
masonry bridge over the Callygonga , not mentioned by Rennell ; besides these there 
l J. Horton Ry ley, ‘Ralph Fitch. England’s Pioneer to India and Burma London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, 
p. 1 18. It may be noted that Ryley identifies the ‘ Serrepore’ of Fitch with Serampur, the former Danish settlement on 
the Hughli above Calcutta. But this cannot be the case, for Fitch says that Serrepore is six leagues from ‘ Sinnergan ‘ 
(Sonargaon), the ancient Muhammadan capital of East Bengal, near Dacca, and it was on his way up the Meghua 
and Ganges, from ‘ Chatigan ’ (Chittagong) that Fitch visited Serrepore. It is correctly identified by Bloclimanu 
(Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XLII, Pt. 1, p. 230) as “ Sherpur Firinghi, marked by Van deu Broucke a little south 
of Idrakpur, on the Dalasari ” (T. H. D. L.) 
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