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BELONA—BEN.

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Belona. Town in Katol tahsU, Nagpur District, Central Provinces on the banks of a small tributary of the Wardha, 4 miles north-west of Mowar town. Population (1881) 3269, namely, Hindus, situated

3189; Muhammadans, 38;

A

Jains, 25; aboriginal tribes, 17.

agricultural town, with a school

and market

purely

place.

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Belsand Kalan. Village in Muzaffarpur District, Bengal situated on the east bank of the old Baghmati river, about 27 miles from Muzaffarpur on the Kantai and Sitamarhi road, and 13 miles from Si'tamarhi town. Lat. 26° 26' 48" N., long. 85° 26' 30" E. Population (1881)

Hindus, 414 Muhammadans, and 3 Christians.

2403, namely, 1986

Indigo factory, primary vernacular school, and police

station.

— Taluk Hassan Mysore Area, 236 square Land revenue, exclusive of water (1881-82) ^9402. Hassan bank Beltir. — Village Mysore State on the Beliir

in

.

District,

State.

miles.

rates,

in

District,

right



of Yagachi river; 23 miles by road north-west of Hassan. 45" N., long. 75° 54' 40" E. ; population (1881) 2917.

known

Lat. 13° 9'

An

ancient

Puranas and on inscriptions as Velapura^ and locally regarded as the Dakshina Varanasi or Southern Benares. It owes its

city,

in the

sanctity to the celebrated temple

of

Chenna Kesava, adorned

carvings and sculptures from the master hand of Jakanacharjya.

endowed by a king

building was erected and

with

This

of the Hoysala Ballala

dynasty, on the occasion of his conversion from the Jain faith to the

worship of Vishnu, about the middle of the 12th century. festival,

held for

days

five

quarters of taluk of the

Ben.

—A

Districts,

distinguish territory.

in Apiil, is

it

Head-

same name.

sluggish stream in Hoshidrpur

Punjab.

The annual

attended by 5000 persons.

Known

as

the

East

and Jalandhar (Jullundur)

or White

{Safed)

Ben, to

from another stream of the same name in Kapurthala

Formed by

the

confluence of torrents from the Sivvalik

boundary between Hoshiarpur and numerous affluents turns westward near the town of from the hills to the north-east Malakpur ; follows a serpentine course through the plain, and falls into the Sutlej (Satlaj) 4 miles above its junction with the (Beas) Bias. Crossed by bridge on Grand Trunk Road 3 miles from Jalandhar cantonment fordable in cold weather. Banks too steep to admit of Hills;

skirts

for

35

miles

Jalandhar, during which

it

the

receives at right angles



by overflow, but watering is practised by means of Persian wheels. The West or Black {Siyali) Ben also rises in the Siwaliks, in Pargana Dasurya, runs through Hoshidrpur and the Kapurthala State, and falls into the Beas 10 miles above its junction with the Sutlej. Bridge on Grand Trunk Road beyond Dialpur in Kdpurthala. Ben. Small stream in Gurdaspur District, Punjab, formed by the junction of several brooks enclosing the town of Sukhuchak. Passes to east of Shakargarh, crosses roads from Gurdaspur to Shakafgarh and irrigation

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