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PIDA-PADRA. 525 dense forests of the Gháts. The tíluk is rich in jungle produce, chiefly cardamoms and pin timber. There are many coffee plantations. The coffee grown by the Coorgs in the banes or forest land attached to their rice-fields is much neglected. In the rains the streams are bridged by trees felled so as to fall across them. Into the sacred forests near the source of the Káveri no one is allowed to penetrate. The north-western portion of the tuluk contains some of the wildest tracts of Coorg; and it is inhabited by the Botwas or Kádalas, the most primitive class of jungle people in Coorg. The Botwas are excellent archers, and live by the chase, seldom working for hire. Their huts, which they frequently change, are of the rudest description, made of sticks and covered with leaves of the natti palm. The women dress in leaves, which they change four times a day; the men wear a coarse cloth. Padma (Paddy).—The name of the main stream of the Ganges, during the lower portion of its course.—See GANGES. Padmanabham.- Village in Binlipatam tuluk, Vizagapatam District, Madras Presidency; situated in lat. 17° 58' N., and long. 83° 19' E., near the port of Bimlipatam. Population (1881) 534; number of houses, 103. A place of religious and historic interest, containing a large endowed Hindu temple of much local celebrity, and marking the scene of a decisive battle - the Flodden of the Northern Circars' – fought between Vizinrám Ráj of Vizianagaram and Col. Prendergast's force, on the ioth June 1794. Viziarám Ráj was defeated and slain, and with him fell most of the principal chiefs of the country. The loss on the Company's side was 13 killed and 61 wounded. Padmavati (Padmavati). — Town in Khandpára Tributary State. Orissa, Bengal; situated on the Jahanadi river, in lat. 20° 20' 45" N., and long. 85° 21' E. Large river traffic; exports of salt, spices, cocoanuts, and brass utensils to Sambalpur in the Central Provinces, and return trade in cotton, wheat, oil-seeds, ghí, oil, molasses, iron, tasar silk, etc. Pádra.–Sub-division of Baroda State, Gáekwar's territory, Bombay Presidency. Area, about 250 square miles, of which 51,443 acres were under cultivation in 1881. The river Náhi flows along the northern boundary. The country presents an even surface to the eye, broken only by numerous Limbada trees, which assist in making the climate salubrious, and by ponds of large extent. Three-fourths of the entire land is of the rich goráth (light soil). The Sub-division contains 11,000 holdings, varying in area from three-quarters of an acre to one hundred acres; the average is five acres. State assessment (1882), £76,667. Cotton is raised on over 6000 acres. Pádra.—Town in the Pádra Sub-division of Baroda State, Bombay Presidency; situated 14 miles west-south-west of the city of Baroda, in lat. 22° 14' 30" N., and long. 73° 7' 30" E. Population (1881) 7668.