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MUNGIR_MURADABAD. 353 ; Jains, 4; and aboriginal tribes, 65. The river Agar winds round three sides of Mungeli, which lies on the direct road from Bilaspur to Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), and carries on an increasing trade in cereals, salt, and skins. Police station-house and town school; 2 largo markets are held weekly. Mungir.—District, Sub-division, and town in Bengal. — See MonGHYR. Munir. --- Town in Ballia District, North-Western Provinces. - Sie MASIAR. Múnj.–Village and ruins in Etawah District, North Western Provinces; situated in lat. 26° 53' +5" x., and long. 79° 12'1" E., on a plain 14 miles north-east of Etiwah town. Population (1881) 2391. Large mound, identified by Mr. Hume with the lúnj taken by Mahmúd of Ghazni in 1017, after a desperate resistance on the part of the Rajput garrison. Local tradition connects the site with the wars of the Pándavas and the Kauravas, chronicled in the dlahábháratu, when the Raja of Múnj and his two sons fought on the side of Raja Yudhishthira. The position of the great gateway and traces of two bastions are still pointed out. Curious square well, built of sculptured blocks. The mound forms an inexhaustible quarry of ancient bricks, from which the villagers construct their huts. Munjpur. - Petty State in Kathiáwár, Bombay Presidency.--See MUJPUR. Munoli. Town in Belgáum District, Bombay Presidency.-Sie VAXOLI. Munshiganj.—Sub-division of Dacca District, Bengal. Area, 401 square miles, with 825 villages and 58,614 houses. Population (1881), males 241,441, and females 278,006; total, 519,747. Classified according to religion, there were-Muhammadans, 275,329; Hindus, 244,088; and Christians, 30. Average density of population, 1295 persons per square mile; villages per square mile, 2'06 ; persons per village, 630 ; houses per square mile, 150; persons per house, 8.8. This Sub-division consists of the 2 police circles of Munshiganj and Srinagar. In 1883 it contained 4 civil and magisterial courts, a regular police of 52 men, and a village watch of 861 men. Munyeru.-River in Kistna District, Madras Presidency. One of the large affluents of the Kistna river, rising in the Mizán's Dominions, and joining the main stream about 20 miles above the anicut at Bezwada. It crosses the high road to Haidarábád (Hyderábád), 25 miles from, and north-west by west of, Bezwada. It is fordable, except for a few days in the rainy season. Murádábád. — District, tahsil, and town in the North-Western Provinces. See MORADABAD. Murádábád.—Town in Unao District, Oudh; situated 36 miles