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to the present site of P«^/irt; which was called also 

 Patall'putra, from the son of a form of De'vi, with 

 thetitleof Pa'tali'-devi', or the thin Goddess. Her 

 son was, in general, called Pa'tali'-putra, and the 

 town Pa'tali'-putra-pura. I have shewn, in my 

 essay on the chronology of the Hindus, that this city is 

 called Pat ale by Pliny. It was called Patteali 

 simply, at the time of the invasion of the Musulmans, 

 as it appears from Ferishta's translation by Colonel 

 Dow: and the inhabitants are considered there as 

 robbers, and, of course, ranked with t\\o%t o^ Bhojepoor 

 and Kuttehr. The last district, formerly called 

 Castere, and now Cuttere, is a Purgunah^ a little to 

 the west o^ Benares ; and the inhabitants behave very 

 well now: those o^ Bhgjepoor are far from being ra- 

 dically cured of their evil' propensities. When the 

 Musulmans took possession of Patna^ many of the 

 most obstinate robbers withdrew to Deryapoor, 

 according to tradition, and were very apt to 

 commit depredations occasionally ; at least for- 

 merly. 



^ It is said in the Bhcigavata, that Maha-Bali re- 

 sided at Padmcivatl or Patna: and one of his titles, 

 in that Puran'a, is Maha-padma-Pati-Nanda, or 

 Nanda the great Lord of the Lotos. Like Para'su- 

 ra'ma, he either destroyed, or drove out of his domi- 

 nions, the remnant of the Cshettris, or Military 

 tribe, and placed Su'dras in their room. These 

 were the Barons of the land, who often proved 

 troublesome. Ra'ja Bulwant Sing, the predecessor 

 of Chet Sing, did the same, in the district of 

 Benares, with the Zemindars, who represented the 

 Cshettris, and even pretended to be really so; from 

 an idea, that it was impossible to improve the re- 

 venues, arising from the land-tax, under their ma- 

 nagement. Maha'-padma, or Bali, was born of a 

 woman of the Sudra tribe. According to Ptolemt, 

 the country of the Bdli-pntras extended from the 



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