INDEX

445

Bamboos, 15 ; male and female,

32, 122 ; 134 n. 71 ; forti-
fications of, 63
Banagarh, 157, 174 n. i
Bandarbana, 77, 91 n. So, 126
Bandgir oil, ingredients for,

329, 338-9. 35<> n. 2 ; uses

of, 338 -

Banditchee. See Bunjettee
Bangamoddan. See Bhanga-

morah

Bangla, bungalow, 96
Banian (baniya), 23, 63
Ban ma, So, 92 n. 91
Bansi, 126

Bantam, 3, 4, 55 n. 9
Banyan tree, Ficus Indica,

100, 107 n. 20, 159
Bar tree. See Banyan tree
Bara jangal. See Bourgengal
Baranasi, a slave bought by

Marshall, 126; shaving of,

126, 135 n. 85
Barari, 73, 121, 133 n. 61
Bard, Henry. See Bellamoiint,

Viscount

Barh, 95, 106 n, 2, 125, 128
Barley, quick growing, 83
Barley corns for measurement,

420

Baroch. See Broach
Barua, 78

Barwa, 113, 130 n. u
Basanta, 78
Basarkhola, 112
Basta, 62
Bathing Festival, 19, 141, 158,

164, 200, 208 n. 37 (i)
Batista de Joan, Armenian,

information obtained from,

165, 167

Bats. See Flying Foxes

Bauri, a measure of cowries, 419

Baxipur, 67

Bay, the. See Bengal

Baya, weaver-bird, nest of,

- 381 ; how lighted, 381

Bayizid I, defeated by Timur,
388 n. 36
Bazars, at Colmegar, 68; at
Turtipur, 69 ; at Dariapur,
76
Beads, various kinds of, as
merchandise, 169
Beallgotchee. See Belgachi
Beatilha, veiling^ 53, 59 n. 70
Bed-Veda, 188
Beer, English, price of, at Fort
St. George, 50 ; barley, 165-6
Begam Sara!, 160, 414
Bel tree, 131 n. 34
Belgachi, 116, 131 n. 34
Belghatta, 100, 107 n. 16,
132 n. 54
Bellamount, Henry Bard, Vis-
count, tomb of, at Hodal,
159 ; account of, 174 n. 5.
Benapur, 64
Benares, 139, 160 ; brass ware
from, 114 ; distance of, from
Patna and Nepal, 161 ;
temple at, destroyed by Shah
Jahan, 201 ; old name for,
423
Bengal, 6, 7 ; chiefs of factories
in, 9 ; waterways of, 31-2 ;
Nawabs of, 67, 78, 88 ». 45,
90 n. 58, 91 n* 73, 118* 132
n. 48
Berkeley, George, ist Barf,
member of the Court of
Committees of the E.I. Co.,
2-3, 54 n. 5 ; his interest on
behalf of Marshall, 2, 3, 39,
40, 41 ; death of, 54 n. 5
Beteelas. See Beatilha
Betel pan, 334, 337 ; used as a
charm, 361
Bezoar, 344
Bhagalpur, 14, 96, 121, 128
Bhagavata doctrine of the One
God, 203 n. 3-4
Bhagavata-purana, Marshall's
translation of the, 29-30