sirguja

Updated: June 9, 2025

"Harichand Raja was born of a bison-cow, Sirguja Rana was born of a snake." CLXIII. The Origin of Tobacco. This is the way that the chewing tobacco began. There was once a Brahmin girl whose relations did not give her in marriage and she died unmarried.

Cecil Henry Bompas - Folklore of the Santal Parganas