out space; the minds of thy foes are void e]; their route is the desert where men are from passing; O VIGRAHA RAJA DÉVA, ubilee occasioned by thy march. thy abode, O VIGRAHA, Sovereign of the be fixed, as in reason it ought, in the boakin to the mansion of dalliance) of the with beautiful eye-brows, who were married enemies. There is no doubt of thy being hest of embodied souls. (7) Didst thou p in the lap of S'Rí, whom thou didst seize e ocean, having churned it? (8) e year from the fortunate VIC RAMADITYA on Thursday the 15th day of the bright the month Vaisác'h, this was written in the of (10) by I, the son of Mahava, a Cáyaft'ha of a family a: at this time the fortunate LACSHANA a Rajaputra, is prime minister. ONE explains this very obscure passage otherwise: "there re should be) no doubt or hesitation in the mind of thee, highest of embodied souls. (Purushottama).” USHÓTTAMA is a title of VISHN'U. With reference to e present copy the date is very distinct; and proves to be THERE are on the same page, some short inscriptions, which I cannot decypher. One of them, however, is partly legible, and appears to be in the Hindustání language. It contains the name of SULTAN IBRAHIM, and wishes him a long life. VI. > ACCOUNT of the KOOKIES or LUNCTAS. By JOHN MACRAE, Esq. COMMUNICATED BY J. H. HARINGTON, Esq. MR. HARINGTON has the pleasure of laying before the society, an account of the Kookies, or Cúcis, respecting whom a paper communicated in Persian by Mr. RAWLINS, was translated by Sir WILLIAM JONES, and printed in the 2d Volume of the Researches. THE paper now communicated was written by Mr. JOHN MCRAE, Surgeon in the Honourable Company's Service, at Chittagong; and from in-. formation given to him by a native of Runganeeah, who had long resided among the Cúcis' as their captive. It was originally intended as a private communication only; but conceiving that the description of manners contained in it, of a people little known, on the frontier of the British Territory, would prove acceptable to the Society, the author was solicited to permit its being read to them; and they will probably consider it sufficiently interesting for publication in their Researches. January 24th, 1799. THE Kookies are a race of people that live among the mountains to the north east of the Chittagong province, at a greater distance than the Choomeeas from the inhabitants of the plains; to whom therefore they are little known, and with whom they very rarely have any intercourse, except when they Occasionally visit the hauts, or markets, on the borders of the jungles in the Runganeeah and Aurungabad districts, to purchase salt, dried fish, and tobacco. N 4 THE |