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[No. 2, 
Notes on three Inscriptions on stone found in Clvutia Nagpur .— By Babu 
Bakeial Das Haldar, M. A. S. 
Inscriptions and other antiquarian remains are very rarely met 
with in Chutia Nagpur. In the course of my excursions in this 
country, I have found three inscriptions on stone, which, though 
not very old, are still, in my opinion, deserving of mention in 
the pages of the Society’s Journal. Chutia Nagpur has, at pre¬ 
sent, little history to speak of. It is by collecting isolated facts, 
unimportant in themselves, but whose mutual dependence may be 
ascertained in future, that we may hope to obtain a glimpse at the 
past history of this interesting country. 
The first inscription I refer to, was found at Tilmi, an incon¬ 
siderable village, which boasted of a fortress a century ago. It 
was the seat of the Thakurs, a branch of the so-called Nag-vansi 
family. The fortress is now in ruins. 
Within the enclosure of the fortress, a stone-well was con¬ 
structed by one of the Thakurs, curiously named Akbar,*' for the 
attainment of the four vargas, or beatitudes. One cannot, in these 
days, clearly perceive the connexion between the attainment of 
beatitude and the construction of a private well intended for the 
owner’s exclusive use, which the well in question must have been; 
but according to the polity of the Nag-vansi family, it might pass 
for a public work. The inscription was fixed near the mouth of the 
well, when the dedication was performed in 1794 Samvat (A. D. 
1737). The character is the modern Devanagari, and the language 
Sanskrit. A copy and a translation are subjoined, myself being no 
way responsible for the errors in orthography and grammar. 
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* Hindus have adopted a few Muhammadan names, as Himmat, Tahawwur, 
Fath, ’Ajab, Akbar, Subhan, Gharib, the compounds of which with * Singh’ 
occur in histories. The family tree of the Maharajahs of Jaipur alone furnishes 
a Himmat Singh, an ’Ajab Singh, and a Subhan Singh, The Editoe. 
