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CONTENTS 
V 
OF THE 
JOURNAL, ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FOR 1872. 
Part I. 
No. I. 
Page 
List of Words of the Nicobar Language as spoken at Camorta, Nan- 
cowry, Trinkutt, and Katschal. — By E. H. Man, Assistant 
Superintendent in charge op the Nicobaes. — Communicated 
bt the Government op India, 
More Buddhist Remains in Orisa.- — By J. Beames, C. S., M. R. 
A. S., &c., Balasoro, 
Notes on a Visit to the Tribes inhabiting the Hills south of Sibsagar, 
A'sam (with five plates). — By S. E. Peal, Sibsagar, 
Note on Ghargaon, As&m (with one plate). — By J. M. Foster, 
F. R. G. S., Ndzirah, Asam, 
Translations of seleoted portions of Boole I. of Chand Bardai’s Epic. — 
By John Beames, B. C. S., M. R. A. S., &e., 
Koch Bihar, Koch Hdjo, and A'sam, in the lGth and 17th centuries, 
according to the Akbarnamah, the Padishahnamah, and the 
Fathiyah i ’Ibriyah. — By H. Bdochmann, M. A., Calcutta 
Madrasah, 
Notes on Arabic and Persian Inscriptions, No. II. (with one plate). — 
By H. Bdochmann, M. A., Calcutta Madrasah, 
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9 
32 
42 
49 
102 
No. II. 
The Legend of Baghesar, a deified spirit held in great reverence by 
the Kusru, Sun, Markam, Netia, and Sarsun clans of the Gond 
Tribe. — By Capt. W. L. Samuells, Assistant Commissioner, 
Manbhdm 
Essays in aid of a Comparative Grammar of the Gaurian Languages. 
— By Rev. A. F. Rudoip Hoeende, D. Ph., Professor of Sanskrit, 
Jay Narayan’s College, Benares, 
