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tion with Rangamati. As to the distance-difficulty, I quite admit that 
so far Burdvvan may agree as well with Hiuen Tsiang’s statement as 
Rangamati. I do not think, however, that it has any superiority in this 
respect. I do not know why it should be assumed that Jajpur was the 
capital of Orissa in Hiuen Tsiang’s time, or that his distances are for 
capitals and not for the confines of kingdoms. The direction of Burdwau 
from Tamlnk is a little more westerly than that of Rangamati, hut still 
it is mainly north. Besides Dr. Waddell takes no notice of the route 
o-iven in the biography, viz., that from Pandusi, or from the monastery 
five miles to the west of it. That route certainly agrees better with 
Rangamati than with Burdwan. However, I lay little stress on direc- 
tions and still less on distances. The two strong points in favour of 
Rangamati are— first, it used to be called the Fort of Karna Suvarna, and 
secondly, that Rangamati is an equivalent for Rakta-Viti and Lo-to- 
wei-chi, or Lo-to-mo-chi. Rangamati is not the only place in the 
neighbourhood which is associated with Karna. The village and thdna 
of Go-Karna, i. e., the cowshed of Karna, is close by. 
On the other hand, Kanehannagar seems to be an obscure place, a 
sort of suburb of Burdwan. No evidence is adduced of its having been 
“ the traditional capital of the country.” I do not know who Belasur 
was, but I see that Captain Layard says there was a tank at Rangamati 
called the Bel Talao. Probably the name is connected in both instances 
with the Bael tree, which is sacred to Siva. . There is also at Rangamati 
the almost obliterated site of an ancient tank called the Jamuna Tank 
and in which a curious image figured by Captain Layard was found. 
Kanehannagar is a common name in Bengal, and has its own dis- 
tinct meaning, viz., the city of gold. X do not see how it can be twisted 
into meaning the city of Karna Suvarna. 
p, s .—I have lately come upon an interesting piece of evidence 
about the antiquity of the name of Karna Suvarna. In the genealogy of 
Raja Radha Kanta Deva, prefixed to the 8th volume of the Sabdakal- 
padruma, and also in the. sketch of his life by the editors of the second 
edition, it is stated that his earliest known ancestor, STi Hari Deva, was 
a resident of Karna Suvarna, near Murshidabad. Raja Radha Kanta 
was the twenty-fifth in descent from S'ri Hari, and was himself born in 
1783, so that STi Hari probably lived in the 12th century. Raja Radha 
Kanta lived to at least the age of 76, and if we allow 26 years for each 
generation of his ancestors, STi Hari may have lived at Karna Suvarna 
before its destruction by the troops of Parakrama Baku. 
For convenience of reference I subjoin Wilford’s notes of Rahga- 
mSti in the 9th volume of the Researches : “ Tradition says that the 
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