John Marshall in India - Notes and Observations in Bengal (1668-1672)

JOHN MARSHALL IN INDIA BY SHAFAAT AHMAD KHAN CONTENTS VII. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES BaUasore, Ganges River, . Hogipore and Nanagur, DiUy to Pattana, Pattana to Ballasore, Pottana to Neopall and Botton, Morung hills, Neopoll, Button, Pattana to Lossa, Neopall to Lossa, Gold Sand, Casmeere, Jaggernaut, Japan, Spahawn to Smerna, Notes, VIII HINDU RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: HINDU AND MUHAMMADAN ASCETICS God, Creation of Man, Noahs Flood, Account Ballanced, Ruttons, Freewill, State after Death, Hindoos Mudds, Kisny, Spirits, Long Lived Men, Endria, or Senses, Jaggeranaut, Jogees and Fuckeers, Notes, IX. ASTROLOGICAL, ASTRONOMICAL, METEOROLOGICAL, MATHEMATICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES Constellations, Nachutturs, Planets, Rosses, Dayes Length, To know Mans Age, Twentyseven Joogs, Hindoos Almanack, What Dayes good for Travell, Hot Winds, Turnadoes, Thought Reading, Problems, Chronology, Measures of Time, Notes, X.A MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. PRESCRIPTIONS Six Tasts, Signes of Health and Sickness, Receipts for Purg, Oyle Bandgir, Antidotes, Remedies for various diseases, Killed Minerals, Notes, XI. FOLKLORE INCLUDING HISTORICAL NOTES, LEGENDS AND STORIES, NATURAL HISTORY, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS Charms, Aphrodisiacs, Good and Bad Luck, Witchcraft, Omens, Incantations, Proverbial Sayings, Timmerlung, Alexander, Great Mogulla Conjanna, Jougee and Eckbar, Justice at Pegue, Augull, Hindoos Justice, Elephants, Costareka Murg from Botton, .Coee or Jackatra, Gosomph, Cutchoa, Snakes, Greene Pigeons, Buryall, Women Burning, Tombs, Notes, XII. MUHAMMADANS: LAWS, RELIGION, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS: PARSEES Moores Law, Mussulmen, Mahumood Syad, Adam and Eve, Discourses by Mahmud Arif, Discourse by Saiyid Jafar, Story of a Fuckeere, Moores Customs, Parsees, Notes, XIII. PRODUCTIONS AND MERCHANDISE: COINS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: MISCELLANEOUS NOTES Productions, Coynes, Ballasore, Pattana, Fort St. George, Metchlepatam, Neopall, Weights and Measures, Languages, Sinscreet, Naggary, China and Japan, Lossa, Miscellaneous Notes, Recipes, . Notes, BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX MAP MARSHALLS ROUTES FROM BALASORE TO PATNA, 1670-1671 INTRODUCTION JOHN MARSHALL, the author of the Notes and Observa tions on East India reproduced in this volume, does not figure prominently in the early history of the East India Company. Unlike his contemporaries, John March, Walter Clavell, Matthias Vincent and Job Charnock, he had no direct intercourse with the ruling authorities of his day, nor did he take any part in obtaining grants for trade, redress of grievances or extension of territory in the early days of the East India Company. His fame rests on different grounds. For eight years after his arrival in India he pursued the even tenour of his way in Bengal, but as the first Englishman who really studied Indian antiquities, he left behind him a store of knowledge that will keep his memory for ever green in the hearts of all enquirers into AngloIndian hi