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1 1 524 PA-DAUNG TOIVN-PADIVALKNAD. be put roughly at 60 square miles, of which about seven-ninths are under rice, and the remainder under miscellaneous crops, such as chillies, fruit, onions, sesamum, and tobacco. These are exchanged for cotton, piece-goods, and nga-pi or fish paste. The chief road is that leading from Prome into Arakan viâ the Taung-gup Pass. The principal town is PA-DAUNG. Pa-daung.--Head-quarters town of Pa-daung township in Prome District, Pegu Division, Lower Burma; situated in lat. 18° 41' N., and long. 95° 10' E., on the right bank of the Irawadi (Irrawaddy). Population (1877–78) 2897; and (1881) 2267. Daily communication with Prome by a ferry-boat. It consists of one long street, which forms a portion of the military road from Prome into Arakan. Con court-house, police station, market, and school. Pa-daung is occasionally mentioned in Burmese history. About the end of the first century of the Christian era, Tha-pin-nyu, the last king of Old Prome, fled thither after the destruction of his capital, Tha-re-khettra, by the Kanran tribe. In both the first and second Anglo-Burmese wars, Pa-daung was the scene of fighting. Padda (Padma).—The name of the main stream of the Ganges during the lower part of its course. See GANGES. Pa-de.- Stream rising in the western slopes of the Pegu Yoma range, in Lower Burma. After a westerly course for some distance, it enters Thayet-myo District, where it takes the name of the Bwot-lay, and falls into the Irawadi (Irrawaddy) from the eastwards. The volume of water poured into the Irawadi during the rains is considerable ; but this channel is useless for navigation purposes on account of the force of the current, and the rapidity with which the water rises and falls. Near its mouth it is spanned by a substantial wooden bridge, which carries the main road between Rangoon and Mye-de. During the rains, large quantities of teak are floated down to the mouth of the Bwot-lay, where the timber is collected into rafts for the Rangoon market. Pádinalknád. - Triluk or Sub-division in Coorg. Area, 400 square miles; number of villages, 56; number of houses, 3351. Population (1871) 32,350 ; (1881) 28,219, namely, 16,342 males and 11,877 females; of whom 18,696 were Hindus, 6896 native Coorgs, 2499 Muhammadans, chiefly Máppilas, 3 Jains, and 125 Christians. Pádinalknád occupies the western portion of Coorg, and includes the boundary range of the Nalk nád, where the Káveri takes its rise, containing the highest peaks of the Western Ghats. Highest peaksTodianda-Mol (5729 feet); Soma-inale in the Kadiethnád; Tumbemale; Igatapa; and Bráhmagiri. The valleys are winding and narrow. The rice cultivation is insufficient for the people, many of whom obtain a livelihood on the coffee estates. Cardamom plots have been opened in the