58 Gaur Das Bysack — Notes on a Buddhist Monastery [No. 1» 
of them also bear on the top two square seals. 1 The date of No. 1 
is 12th June 1778, 1st Ashadha 1185 B. S., 16th Jumada-l-awal of the 
20th year of the imperial reign ; and that of No. 2 is 11th February 
1782, 2nd Falgun 1189 B. S. 
The two other sanads, marked No. 3 and No. 4, bear the same dates 
as, and grant the same quantities of land as those mentioned in Nos. 1 
and 2 respectively. In fact the two former appear to be duplicates 
of the latter two, with this very material difference that, in Nos. 3 
and 4, in place of the grantee’s name being Puran Gir, it is Teshl 
Ldmah Panchan Ardani Bahdeo Panchan , 2 and tho attributes of the 
latter are exactly those of the former. The seals also are different : 
on Nos. 3 and 4 they are those of tho East India Company as dewan and 
servant of SMh ’Xlam Badshah. No. 3, moroover, bears two seals, one 
at the top, the other on the right margin. Both sanads bear the signa- 
ture of Warren Hastings almost obliterated. 
The simple facts now disclosed are, that in the years 1778 and 1782, 
a Hindu ascetic, named Puran Gir Gosain, and a Buddhist Pontiff 
conjointly, but by two sets of grants, one in the name of each, received a 
certain quantity of land on the river side, which aggregated 150 biglias 
and constituted the area of If hot Bagan, and that the former died in 1795, 
and was buried as a saint near his Mafli there, by his chela or disciple 
Daljit Gir Gosain. 
This information, though by itself it does not satisfy but rather 
magnifies the curiosity already raised, affords a clue to tho line of 
historical investigation which would carry us to the goal. The inquiry, 
however, leading, as it does, into the most eventful period of British 
Indian history, proves almost unfractuous. Vain is the search for 
such apparently trifling incidents as the foundation of the Bhot Mandir 
or tho career of merely a Hindu mendicant, in the annals of the 
to Bengal by Aurangsdb, and in tho last century it wub customary to describe Bengal 
in public records and formal documents with this title. Humaydn called Gaur 
Jannatdbad, ‘ a paradise settlement,’ though when the plague was raging there, 
which depopulated it and led to its desertion, the pun came into vogue as Gaur 
la gor, “ from Gaur to the grave.” 
1 One seal has an inscription in Nagari characters. See footnote on p. 95. 
! TesM ( u&A so spelled in the sanads. The Tibetan is tkrasis Mama, pro- 
nonnoed Tashi Lama. The full name of tho Lama was Panohhen Nagwad Lossan 
Paldan YeBlie. Tho first element, Bpelled panchan ( ) in the sanads is a 
compound of Pan ‘ a panilita ’ or ‘learned man* anil chan ‘great’ or ‘conspicuous.* 
Ardani is a corruption of Erteni, a gem. The Gem opithet, though not exclusively 
applied to a Tashi Lama, indicates, in his ease, perfection and the efficacy of his 
adoration. The terms erteni and the Sanskrit ratna seem to bo congeners. Bahdeo 
is the Sanskrit Vdkyadeva, equivalent to the Tibetan Naywan, 
