It is liable, like gram, to an insect (bahddura) 

 which attacks the unripe pod (ghenti) and also to frost. 

 The area recorded under this crop in the mea- 

 surement papers is 5,200 acres. 



This pea is essentially a make-shift crop. The seed is said to have ori- 

 ginally come into this district in some bijhra from 

 across the Ganges or from the west (the two quarters 



from which everything new is said to come), and to have been selected and 

 come into fashion as a separate crop, especially as the size of the pea over- 

 weighted the bijkra. 



