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NURBADA RIVER. 207 Administration.—Total revenue (1883-84) of Sarbadá Division, £277,018; total cost of officials and police of all kinds, £61,964. Justice is administered by 44 civil and 58 criminal courts. Total strength of regular and town police, 2145 men. Average daily number of prisoners in jail (1883), 3+2+3. Total number of Governmentinspected schools (1883-84), 349, with 17,925 pupils. The Census of 1881 returned 16,236 boys and 482 girls as under instruction; besides 37,930 males and 714 females able to read and write, but not under instruction. [For further details, see the accounts of the different Districts in their alphabetical order.] Narbadá (Nerbudda, Narmadi -the Vamatus of Ptolemny, Namnadius of the Periplus).- One of the great rivers of India, traditionally regarded as the boundary between Hindustan Proper and the Deccan. It rises (lat. 22° 41' N., long. 81° 49' E.) in the dominions of the Rajá of Rewa, and, after a westward course of Soo miles, falls into the sea (lat. 21° 38' N., long. 72° 30' E.) below Broach in the Bombay District of that name. Its source is at Amarkantak, a massive flat-topped hill, 3793 feet above sca-lerel, forming the eastern terminus of that long range which runs across the middle of India from west to east. Al round lies a wild and desolate country; but a little colony of priests have reared their temples in the middle of these mighty solitudes, to guard the sources of the sacred river. The Narbadá bubbles up gently in a small tank in one of the undulating glades on the summit of the mountain. Then for about three miles it meanders throug green meadows, receiving the waters of countless springs, till it reaches the edge of the Amarkantak plateau, where it falls over the black basaltic cliff in a glistening cascade of 70 feet, called Kapila-Dhára. A little farther on is a smaller fall, known as Dúdhdhára, or the Stream of Mik; the myth being that here the river once ran with milk instead of water. After descending some hundreds of feet by falls and rapids from the heights of Amarkantak, the Narbadá enters the Central Provinces, and winds round the hills of Mandlá, till it flows under the walls of the ruined palace of Rámnagar. At this point the Narbadá has run a course of nearly a hundred miles, and received the drainage of an extensive hill country. Its swollen waters flour in several channels, between which rise wooded islands; while in mid-stream, peaks and ledges of black trap protrude in all directions. The banks are clothed with thick foliage to the water's edge, and on every side hills shut in the horizon. But below Rámnagar for several miles down to Mandlá, the river flows in an unbroken expanse of blue water between banks adorned with lofty trees. Of all the pools or reaches (dohs) in the rivers of the Central Provinces, this is the loveliest. Below Mandlá, at Gwáríghát, where the Trunk Road crosses from Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) to Nagpur, the Narbadá river wears the look of