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write to this personage, to the effect that the Feringis 1 * were masters of 
Bengal, and had shown him great favour, and added that he thought 
it probable that the priest would send some of his peoplo to visit the 
principal religious places, and expected, in the event of his doing so, that 
the Governor would give them a good reception.* At another interview, 
the Lama desired that Mr. Hastings should send an embassy to the Dalai 
Lama, when he would come of age, and that, in the event of his obtaining 
a grant of land on the banks of the Ganges, he would place Puran Gir 
Gosain there, and if he should stand in noed of any small matter, he 
trusted the Governor would supply him. 3 4 * 
On Mr. Bogle’s inquiry as to what site ho would prefer, the Lama 
said, he would like some place in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, that the 
people to be sent down might have opportunities of seeing the Governor, 
to whom and to the Pandits he would leave the matter; the only thing he 
would press for, was that it might be near the Ganges. He further 
explained his idea on the subject of building a house there, and said, “ I 
“ propose that Puran Gir who was then down in Calcutta should settle 
“ it. I do not wish it to be a large house, and let it be built in the 
“ fashion of Bengal.” He intimated, that he would give the necessary in- 
structions to Piiran, who, he said, “ has served me well, and I have 
“ not found him guilty of so many lies as most other fakirs, and I hope 
“ the Governor will show him favour.” He here mentioned the name 
of another old Gosain ‘ Sukh Deb ’ who, he said, “ has also asked me 
“ leave to go down to Calcutta, he will accompany you ; and I have 
also “ written to the Governor about him, and I hope he will favour 
him.”* 
On another occassion the Lama showed Mr. Bogle the images with 
their dress which he intended to send down to Bengal, through Puran Gir, 
to be put up in the proposed temple, and inquired particularly about the 
situation of a town called S'ambhal. 6 The reason assigned by the 
1 Feringis, a term usually applied in most parts of Asia to Europeans. It is 
said to have been derived from Frank. A stranger is generally called Peling, 
* Markham, ibid., p. 146. 
• Markham, ibid., p. 1G4. 
4 Markham, ibid., p. 165. 
® Markham, ibid., p. 1G8. S’ambhal is a fabulous city, the Utopia of the Northern 
Buddhists, on which Bilbu S. C. Das has supplied the following information. The 
Tashi Lama wrote a book called Shambalai Lamyig, i. e., a journey to Shambala. 
According to the Tibetan work “ Selki-melon,” the name S'nmbhala is derived 
from that of king S'ambhaka of the S'akya race. Literally it moans “ one who 
makes happy,” and S'ambha is the name of Tswara. According to the Tibetans, 
the position of the oountry of S’ambliala is as follows. It is a vast plain of 
the shape of a lotas of eight petals, entirely surrounded by a wall of snowy 
