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BE YT—BEZWADA.

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The

bar at

its

mouth has always

high tides from 16 to 18

Beyt.

— Island

at least 12 feet of water over

it,

and

at

feet.

Gulf of Kachchh (Cutch), Bombay Presidency,

in the

lying between 22° 25' 12' E. long. it

It is

and 22° 29' n. lat., and between 69° 8' and 69° a narrow and crooked strip of land, so that although

measures in a direct line from north-east to south-west

actual length

is

much

half as

The

again.

5 miles, its

south-western half consists

of a rocky table-land, about 50 or 60 feet high. The east end, 3 miles to the west of Paga sand, is called Hanuman Point, after a temple of that name, situated about half a mile within the point.

22° 27' 30" N., long. 69“

Temples

Fort

flagstaff,

honour of Krishna abound. The population consists principally of Brahmans, supported by the offerings of pilgrims, with whom Beyt is a favourite place of When the island w.as taken from the Waghirs by a British force resort. in 1859, its fort and principal temples were blown up. Tdluk in Kistna District, Madras Presidency. Bezwada Houses, Area, 534 square miles, containing 4 towns and 107 villages. lat.

5'

E.

in

—

Land revenue, ;^i5,709-

14,393.

41,778 males and 41,117 females. 3 criminal courts, with police,

60 men.

Bezwada

Population (1881) 82,895, namely, I’he tdluk contains i civil and

police stations (thdnds)

7

strength of regular

Chief town, Bezwada.

(Bejavdda ).

Madras Presidency.

—Town

in the

Bezwada

tdluk,

Lat. 16° 30' 50" n., long. 80° 39'

Kistna e.



District,

population

Hindus number 7605; Muhammadans, and ‘others,’ 2. Situated on the Kistna river 1584; (here crossed by the most frequented ferry of the District), at the junction of the high roads from Madras to Calcutta, and from Haidarabad to the Being also the coast, 20 miles north-east from Gantur (Guntoor). entrepot for most of the canal traffic of the Kistna delta, and connected by good water-ways with Madras, Ellore, Masulipatam, Coconada, and Rajahmandri, the town possesses a considerable internal trade. A fort erected here by the East India Company in 1760, was dismantled in Bezwada possesses much interest for the archseologist, being by 1820. some identified with the Dhanakaketa of Hwen Thsang, and containing (1881) 9336; houses, 1202. Christians, 145;

rock-cut temples of the Buddhist period, as well as very ancient Hindu The hill to the west is (like several others) pointed out as pagodas. the site of the legendary fight between Arjun

and Indra.

During the

excavations for the canals and the anicut (which here crosses the Kistna), many valuable antiquarian discoveries were made. Bezwada is the head-quarters of the

Head

Assistant Collector of the Kistna District

of the tahsilddr of the tdluk,

and of the superintending.

assistant engineers of the Public office, jail,

telegraph

and

library.

office,

Works Department.

munsif’s court,

District,

It

and

has a post-

dispensary, circuit bungalow,