BELONA—BEN.
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Belona. Town in Katol tahsU, Nagpur District, Central Provinces on the banks of a small tributary of the Wardha, 4 miles north-west of Mowar town. Population (1881) 3269, namely, Hindus, situated
3189; Muhammadans, 38;
A
Jains, 25; aboriginal tribes, 17.
agricultural town, with a school
and market
purely
place.
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Belsand Kalan. Village in Muzaffarpur District, Bengal situated on the east bank of the old Baghmati river, about 27 miles from Muzaffarpur on the Kantai and Sitamarhi road, and 13 miles from Si'tamarhi town. Lat. 26° 26' 48" N., long. 85° 26' 30" E. Population (1881)
Hindus, 414 Muhammadans, and 3 Christians.
2403, namely, 1986
Indigo factory, primary vernacular school, and police
station.
— Taluk Hassan Mysore Area, 236 square Land revenue, exclusive of water (1881-82) ^9402. Hassan bank Beltir. — Village Mysore State on the Beliir
in
.
District,
State.
miles.
rates,
in
District,
right
of Yagachi river; 23 miles by road north-west of Hassan. 45" N., long. 75° 54' 40" E. ; population (1881) 2917.
known
Lat. 13° 9'
An
ancient
Puranas and on inscriptions as Velapura^ and locally regarded as the Dakshina Varanasi or Southern Benares. It owes its
city,
in the
sanctity to the celebrated temple
of
Chenna Kesava, adorned
carvings and sculptures from the master hand of Jakanacharjya.
endowed by a king
building was erected and
with
This
of the Hoysala Ballala
dynasty, on the occasion of his conversion from the Jain faith to the
worship of Vishnu, about the middle of the 12th century. festival,
held for
days
five
quarters of taluk of the
Ben.
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Districts,
distinguish territory.
in Apiil, is
it
Head-
same name.
sluggish stream in Hoshidrpur
Punjab.
The annual
attended by 5000 persons.
Known
as
the
East
and Jalandhar (Jullundur)
or White
{Safed)
Ben, to
from another stream of the same name in Kapurthala
Formed by
the
confluence of torrents from the Sivvalik
boundary between Hoshiarpur and numerous affluents turns westward near the town of from the hills to the north-east Malakpur ; follows a serpentine course through the plain, and falls into the Sutlej (Satlaj) 4 miles above its junction with the (Beas) Bias. Crossed by bridge on Grand Trunk Road 3 miles from Jalandhar cantonment fordable in cold weather. Banks too steep to admit of Hills;
skirts
for
35
miles
Jalandhar, during which
it
the
receives at right angles
by overflow, but watering is practised by means of Persian wheels. The West or Black {Siyali) Ben also rises in the Siwaliks, in Pargana Dasurya, runs through Hoshidrpur and the Kapurthala State, and falls into the Beas 10 miles above its junction with the Sutlej. Bridge on Grand Trunk Road beyond Dialpur in Kdpurthala. Ben. Small stream in Gurdaspur District, Punjab, formed by the junction of several brooks enclosing the town of Sukhuchak. Passes to east of Shakargarh, crosses roads from Gurdaspur to Shakafgarh and irrigation
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