Mahavira Nirvan Bhumi Pava Ek Vimarsh

SR No.: 002135
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhagwati Prasad Khetan
Publisher: Parshwanath Shodhpith Varanasi
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 268
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & History
File Size: 12 MB

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परिशिष्ट-२ : २०७ परिशिष्ट सं० २ Hitory, Antiquities, Topography, Statistics of Eastern India
— Buchanan p. 354.
PARRAONA—This also is a very large division. A little land near the Gandaki is yearly inundated, but in general this is an elevated level territory, with however some high Darrow banks, that wind for a considerable way in various directions, and considerably add to the beauty of the prospect. A long narrow forest, containing many mimosas and other prickly trees, and rather stunted, winds obliquely through the middle of the division in its southern part, and towards the north runs along the frontier, but is not ornamental. The remainder of the country is clear, with very numerous plantations, among which the fields wind in beautiful lawns, especially near Parraona, where the proportion occupied by plantations is enormous. The custom of fallowing is adopted here also, and renders the appearance of the country more beautiful by keeping down rank vegetation.
There are no large lakes; but the south side of the division is very easily watered, the springs being very near the surface. The owners of land have three houses of brick. That of the Parraona family, the only one that I saw, is a small castle at a corner of the town, and is very ruinous, though still inhabited. There are 75 mud walled houses of two stories, of which five are covered with tiles, and 70 are thatched. Of the huts have mud walls, and of these 10 are covered with tiles, and 200 have wooden doors and window shutters. The remainder are thatched, and, if they have any door, it is a mat to shut the only aperture in the hut, except the crevices in the soof; 1. differ from those last mentioned in having their walls