1890.] 
at Bhot Bagan in Hoivrah. 
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an episode relating to the Bhot Bagan, which will be noticed here- 
after, it will be soon that Captain Turner refers to these 50 biglnis, when 
he says in one of his communications to the Governor-General (John 
Macpherson) in 1786, that it “is a part of the land situated on the 
“ western bank of the river, opposite to Calcutta, which was formerly 
“ granted, under a sunnud of this government, to Teshoo Lama, for the 
“ foundation of a place of worship, and as a resort for those pilgrims 
“ of his nation, who might occasionally make visits to the consecrated 
“ Ganges.’’ 1 He also in the same paper describes the whole as Piiran 
“ Gir’s little territory.” 
History then corroborates the statements in the sanads that the 
total area of the Bhot Bagan is a trifle upwards of 150 bighas, and 
shows that the object of the grant was fully carried out by the liberality 
of the Lama, the amount of whose remittance, received bj' Mr. Bogle 
for the construction of the temple and dwelling, though not traceable 
now, is stated to have been ‘ considerable,’ and hence the structures 
were no doubt originally commensurate with the large expenditure that 
had been incurred on account of them. There were also guest-houses, 
(as the traditions of the place confirm), in which people from Tibet, 
some of whom wero important enough to have been introduced to 
Warren Hastings, wore lodged. The building that is now seen, with 
partial reconstruction of some ruined portions, must be the remains of 
what was once of much larger dimension and extent. 2 
Of the grantees whose names tho sanads montion, ono is tho Lama, 
the other Piiran Gir Gosain. The title of the former, as given in the 
Persian, and as already set forth, is Tcshi Larnah Panchan Ardani Bdk- 
deo Panchan, which I think would bo correctly Tashi Lama Panchan 
Erteni Vdkya Deva, meaning “ the Tashi Lama Pandita, the gem of great 
Panditas, Vakyadeva (lord of speech.)” It was thus for the first and 
last time in the annals of Tibet and Buddhadom and of British India, 
that an Avatdr, the living divinity, who from his palace on the highest 
regions where man can dwell, exercises his hierarchical sway over the 
largest extent of territories in the world, condescended to accept sanads 
from the representative of the British Power in India and to become his 
Jagirdar a hundrod and twenty years ago ! The personage who gave tho 
kindest reception to Mr. Bogle and formed with him a real friendship, 
2. This anomaly may bo explained by the fact that it xs^not tho name of a person, 
but the official designation that is mentioned in both the sanads. 
1 Turner, ibid., p. 432. 
s The Bhot Hagan or rather Bhot Mandir in faot was constituted a math in 
which character it is perhaps the only one besides that of the celebrated Tarkeswar, 
in Bengal. 
K 
