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Baupur. Cantonment in Ganjdm District, Madras Presidency. — Berhampore. Baurgarh. Hill in Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) District, Central Pro-

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south-west of Jabalpur town, rising about 500 feet above the formed of schistose quartzite. Lat. 23° i' 30" N., long. 79° 40' e.

narrow gorge separates it from the general range of trap found in the neighbourhood.

Baurgarh.

— An

isolated granitoid

hill

in

Betiil

hills.

Coal

Central

District,

Lat. 22° ii' 33" n., Provinces; about 25 miles north-west of Betul. 30" E. Scarped on all sides but one, and crowned by a long. 77° 50'

ruined

fort.

Bausi {Baunsi, Bowsee). situated near the base of

—Village

Mandar

in

Hill.

Bhdgalpur

District,

Bengal

Lat. 24° 50' n., long. 78* 4' e.

The numerous

buildings, tanks, large wells, and stone figures, found two round the base of the sacred hill, show that a great The people of the neighbourcity must once have stood here. hood say that it contained 52 markets, 53 streets, and 88 tanks. According to local tradition, on the night of the Dewali festival a large building (the ruins of which still exist, and the walls of which contain for a mile or

an immense number of small holes, evidently intended to hold chirdghs, or small native lamps) was formerly illuminated by a hundred thousand of these lights, each householder being allowed to supply only one. or

when

ascribes

the city its

fell

into ruin

destruction to

is

How

not known, though popular tradition

Kala Pahar.

A

Sanskrit inscription

on a

stone triumphal arch seems to show that the city was in existence less

than 300 years ago.

dan on Mandar

After the destruction of the temple of

Madhusu-

image of the god was brought to Bausi, where Once a year, on the Paus-Sankrinti day, the image is it now remains. carried from Bausi to the foot of the hill, and is swung on the triumphal From 30,000 to 40,000 pilgrims assemble at arch above referred to. this festival from all parts of the country, to bathe in the sacred tank at the foot of the hill, and a fair is held which lasts for 15 days. Town and port in the Tekkali Estate, Ganjam Bavanapddu. Lat. 18° 36' n., long. 84° 24' 30" E. District, Madras Presidency. population (1881) 1059 Hindus, chiefly fishermen. houses, 196 Situated 4 miles from Naupadu, the largest salt station in the District, whence the salt is exported via Bavunapadu. BdiVra {Bdvada ). Petty chiefship, feudatory to the Kolhapur State, within the British Political Agency of Kolhapur and the Southern Maratha country, Bombay Presidency, lying between 16° 24' 45" and 16° 43' 45" Excluding N. lat, and between 73° 51' 45" and 74° 8' 30" E. long. certain villages situated below the Western Ghats, the State is bounded north, east, and south by the lands of Panhala, Karvir, and Bhudhargarh in Kolhapur, and west by the Ghats. Estimated area, 83 square Hill, the

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