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BHADRA—BHADRA CHALAM.

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Tunga at Kuddli in the adjoining District of ShiFor the most part it runs between steep banks and amid dense forests, and its waters are little used for irrigation. There are i8 dams, from which 325 acres are supplied with water; at Benkipur it is According to the Purinic legend, given under crossed by a bridge. Tungabhadra, the Bhadra was formed by the right tusk of the boar District, joins the

moga.

avatar of Vishnu.

Bhadrd.

—ZamtnddA

or

chiefship in

the

Burha

tahsil,

Balaghat

Lat. (centre) 21° 25' n., long. 80° 33' 30" e.

District, Central Provinces.

Area, 128 square miles, of which 34 are cultivated; number of villages, 62; occupied houses, 3911; population (1881) 18,855, namely, 9223

males and 9632 females; average density of population, 147 per square mile. The estate w’as given by the Subadar of Lanji, at the end of the last century, in

family

Bela

still

zammddri tenure

retains possession of

village.

Bhadrachalam.

— Tdluk

and

to Zain-ud-di'n it.

The

estate in

Khan, Pathan, whose

residence of the chief

Godavari

District,

is

in

Madras

Presidency, lying between 17° 35' 45" and 17° 56' 30" N. lat, and 80° 54' 30" and 81° 8' E. long. Contains 313 villages, half of which belong to an

old proprietary estate, with 35,656 inhabitants, chiefly Koyas.

Annual revenue about ^^764. This tdluk, with that of Rekapalli, was transferred from the Central Provinces to Madras in 1874 ; and the Rampa country from the tdluk of Rajamahendri (Rajahmundry) being added, the whole was formed into an Agency under the Godavari Until i860, this tract formed part of the

Collector. District

ceded

in that year

by the Nizam.

Upper Godavari

Area, with Rekapalli, 91

square miles.

Bhadrachalam. trict,

— Chief town of tdluk of same name

Madras Presidency.

Lat.

17° 41' N., long. 81°

in E.



Godavari Dishouses, 389;

Built on the population (1881) 1901, mostly Brahmans and Telingas. Godavari river, which is here very deep and rapid. About 104 miles from

Rajamahendri (Rajahmundry), and 15 from Dumagudiem. Consists of one long and narrow street, and receives its name from being near the rock on which Bhadradu performed his devotions. Celebrated for the temple of Ramachandra, who is said to have crossed the river at this spot, on his famous expedition to the island of Ceylon, and also for

the

annual

held here in his honour. This temple was ago by Rishi Pratishtha, but additions have been

fair

built four centuries

It consists of a main building with a fine time to time. dome, flanked by 24 smaller temples on both sides. It is surrounded by a high w'all, and may be ascended by steps from near the bank of

made from

The sacred jew'els are said to be of great value. The Nizam annually contributes ;^i300 towards the maintenance of the Twenty miles from Bhadrachalam is Pamesala, another shrine temple.

the Godavari.