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 MAN 459 is 50,849, being at the rate of 1,412 per square mile, or five per cultivated acre; except the Lucknow pargana, its population is the densest in Oudh. It contains the finest scenery in the district. The banks of the Ganges are high, the town of Mánikpur is picturesquely situated among numerous groves, and every garden contains some graceful ruin-a mosque or tomb- in all stages of decay. The proprietary rights are as follows :- Talugdari. Mufrad. Total. 48 Risen Raikwór Brahman Káyatlı Sayyad Shekh Pathán 1 2 5 25 10 93 TI .. or Total or 48 120 The 48 taluqdari villages belong to the Rámpur estate of Rája Han- want Singh. The remainder of the pargana almost entirely belongs to Musalmans. Mánikpur is said to have been founded by Mán Deo, a younger son of Rája Bál Deo of Kanauj; it was then called Manpur. It is not the least likely that it continued under the dominion of Kanauj for any length of time. When the Buddhist pilgrim, Hwen Thsang, visited Oudh in the seventh century, Mánikpur must have been in the kingdom of Aya Mukhi; at any rate it was not under Kanguj. The account given in the Partabgarh settlement report must be correct- ed in several particulars. In the first place, Mánik Chand cannot bave been a step-brother of Jai Chand, for the former was a Gahilwar, the latter a Rấthor; nor did the Gabilwárs fly to Argal as stated by Mr. Car- negy; that place was and is the seat of the Gautams; Mánik Chand's rela- tives fled to Mirzapur where they still are; there are 2,400 Gahilwars in Mirzapur.* Sir Henry Elliot considers that the Gahilwars preceded the five Ráthor rájas of Kanauj on the throne of that empire. The following is the trans- lation of an Urdu passage from the " Tawáríkh-i-Partabgarh," compiled by the Extra Assistant Commissioner Muhammad Ismail for Gazetteer pur- poses. About 50 years after the death of Rája Bhoj, successor of Bikramajít, says the “ Táríkh-i-Farishta," there was a king of Kanauj named Bás Deo. It occurred during his reign that Bahrám Gor, a king of Persia, disguised "Sberring's Findu Tribes."