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PAGARA-PAHARI BAVKA. 527 en Cunningham identifies Padrauna with Páwá, mentioned in the Chinese chronicles as the last halting place of Sakya Muni or Buddha before reaching Kusinagara, where he died, and which place received an eighth share of his relics. The village contains a large mound covered with broken bricks, from which several statues of Buddha have been excavated. The town is composed of five separate villages, with an aggregate population in 1881 of 8939. Besides the usual Sub-divisional courts and offices, Padrauna contains a post-office, police station, Government school, and excise warehouse. The site is inalarious and very unhealthy, and goitre is common. A small house-tax is raised for police and conservancy purposes. Pagára.—Zamindiri estate in Hoshangabad District, Central Provinces, lying among the Mahadeo Hills. The estate comprises 12 villages, with a population (1881) of 1720, residing in 399 houses. The chief is one of the Bhopás or hereditary guardians of the temple on the Mahadeo Hills, and pays a tribute of £10 a year to the British Government. Pa-gat (Hpa-gat). — Township in Amherst District, Tenasserim Division, Lower Burma. Population (1881) 14,732 ; land revenue, £818; capitation tax, f167.— See HPA-GAT. Pa-gat (Hpa-gat).–Village in Amherst District, Tenasserim Division, Lower Burma.--See HPA-GAT. Páglá (or Páglí).—River in Maldah District, Bengal. An offshoot of the Ganges on its left bank, into which the Chhota Bhagirathi, a sinaller branch, flows, and which, before it regains the Ganges, encloses a large island in the south of the District about 16 miles long. During the rainy season, the Páglá is navigable for boats of considerable size; its floods deposit sand and mud, in which rich early rice and other crops are grown. Pahárapur.— Pargani in Gonda District, Oudh; bounded on the north and east by Gonda pargand, on the south by Guwárich, and on the west by Hisámpur parçaná in Bahraich District. Area, 115 square miles, of which 73 are cultivated. A level pargani, watered by the Tirhi river, which intersects it from west to east, and occasionally causes damage to the neighbouring villages by inundation. A variety of longstemmed rice, known as dunsi Nhán, is peculiar to this parganá, which grows as the floods rise in the rainy season, and is never submerged. Population, according to the Census of 1881, 75,260, namely, 65,647 Hindus, 9612 Muhammadans, and i 'other. Total Government revenue, £9361. The parganá is chiefly owned by the Rájás of Kapurthala and Chánda. The Bisambharpur estate belongs to the heirs of the late Mahárajá Sir Mán Singh, K.C.S.I. Of the 128 villages comprising the parganá, 80 are held by Brahmans. Pahári Banka.-One of the petty jágirs in Bundelkhand known as