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passing under the railway between Arrah and Bihiya, east,
and
Gangi
finally falls into the
except during the
nai/i.
It
it
turns to the
contains very
little
water,
rains.
—
River of Chutia Nagpur, Bengal. Rises in the range of which separates Chang Bhakar from Korea State; flows in a westerly direction through Chang Bhakar until it takes a bend to the north, following the boundary line of the State, which it leaves at its
Bands.
hills
north-west corner, and passes into Rewa.
rocky bed and frequent rapids
—
there
is
no
It
is
a
hill
stream, with
traffic.
Bandsa. Village in Carhwal State, North-Western Provinces; situated on the left bank of the Jumna (Jamuna), 7 miles below its source, at Lat. 30° 56' n., long. 78° 27' e. the confluence of the Banasa torrent. Picturesquely perched on a natural ledge of rock, with other ledges rising above. Hot springs abound in the neighbourhood. Overwhelmed and half destroyed by the fall of a precipice in 1816. Taluk in Kadiir District, Mysore Arrow-bearing' 'i). Bandvar Native State; enlarged in 1875 by the addition of Kadur taluk, and now contains 6 Hoblis, with 440 primary and 171 secondary villages.
—
ly
467 square miles; population (1881)
76,384; land revenue 1,507, or 5s. per cultivated (1874-75), exclusive of water rates, acre. Hindus form the bulk of the population, of whom 36 per cent, Area,
are agriculturists.
Bandvar.
—Village
Kadur
in
miles east of Chikmagalur.
District,
Mysore Native State
Lat. 13° 24' n., long. 76° 14'
e.
30
population
rate of taxation, (1881) 2110; municipal revenue (1874-75) Formerly the capital of a Jain principality, and now the 7d. per head.
head-quarters of a taluk of the
Banavdsi {Bannawasi).
same name.
—Town
in
North Kanara
District,
Bombay
Presidency; situated on the banks of the Warda river, 14 miles from Sirsi, the head-quarters of the Sub-division, 20 miles south-east of
Sunda, and 370 north-west of Madras. Lat. 14° 33' n., long. 75° 5' e. Formerly a town of considerable importance, Population (1881) 1999. The temple to Siva, though but now hardly more than a village. a
mean
building,
frequented
it
had once very
large
endowments, and
is
much made
still
contains a very fine figure of Nandi, and a table
from black granite. The car-drawing ceremony here takes place every year about March or April, and is attended by about 4000 people, The name of the town occurs in Ptolemy. chiefly Haiga Brahmans. See Bancoora. District and town in Bardwan Division, Bengal
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Bankur.v.
Bdnda.
—
District
.
in
the
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Lieutenant-Covernorship of the North-
Western Provinces, lying between 24° 53' 15" and 25° 55' n. lat., and between 80° 2' 45" and 81° 36' 15" e. long. Area, 3061 square Banda is a miles; with a population, in 1881, of 698,608 souls.
