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6 Sáran, conducts a similar business. It has monopolised the trade in oil-seeds, not only of Sáran itself, but also of the Districts of the North-Western Provinces and of Oudh, which lie higher up the Gográ Valley.

The south-eastern portion of Patná District, where the land rises towards the hills of Chutiá Nágpur, possesses a special interest as containing some of the earliest memorials of Indian Buddhism. In the same neighbourhood lies the town of Behar, an early Muhammadan capital, which has given its name to the Province.

The two Districts of Pátna and Sáran contain a total area of 4755 square miles; and a population, according to the Census of 1872, of 3,623,498 souls.

W. W. H.