1916] The Geography of Orissa. 43 



quarters before entering the main building of the courtesan 

 Vasantasena is given in the Sanskrit drama Mrccha-katika. 

 The present temple of Srirangam has similarly seven quarters, 

 one separate from the other by high wall, before entering the 

 sacred precincts of the god. 



In the time of the Ain the palace in the fort was the 



residence of the governor. But by the time of Bruton the 

 Musalman governor had removed his residence to the bank of 

 the Kathajori, which part came therefore to be known as 

 Lalbagh. The town was divided into several quarters, which 

 were called sahis in Hindu time, but oenerally bazars in Musul- 

 man time. Besides Biranasi, the oldest part of the town, is, of 

 course, the fort named Bara-bati from its covering an area of 



twelve Batis of land. 



(19) Khatrah, Khadah, or Khazah, with a fortress. The 

 khetra or the sacred area round the city of Pari (Beames). The 

 Purusottama Ksettra of the T. chronicles whose luna pentha or 

 store of salt is mentioned. The Ksettra or sacred area is generally 

 taken to be panca-kosi or five-kossed in extent. 



The sacred city was at the time of the Ain under the 

 charge of Ramacanclradeva, the Raja of Khurdha. The city 

 had been plundered by the Afghans just a little before and had 

 been saved from further pillage by Manasimha in 1593 a.d. In 

 the Ain Raja Ramchandra, Zamindar of Orisa, appears as a 

 Mansabdar of 500 (No. 250). From some undescribed Persian 

 manuscripts Stirling however gives him a rank of 3,500. Ac- 

 cording to a version in the Madala Pariji, Rarnoandradeva was 

 a son of the king Danei Vidyadhara, belonging to the Bhoi 

 dynasty. 



The fortress in Puri town refers to the fortified palace of 

 the Oriya kings where they halted when they visited the temple. 

 This palace was probably situated in Bali Sahi near the old 

 nahara or palace of the Khurdha kings. 



(20) Manakpatan. Manikapatna in the sandy strip between 

 th Cilka lake and the sea. The mahal was purely of salt taxes, 

 the village itself being in Caubiskuda Dandapata (No. 12). The 

 salt revenue is estimated roundly at six lakh dams or Rs. 15,000. 

 The Cilka lake was a great centre of the manufacture of the salt 

 known as karkac. This manufacture was stopped by Govern- 

 ment towards the end of the last century. 



(21) The heading gives 21 mahals in Sarkar Katak. But 

 the twenty-first is omitted in the detailed list. I think the 

 omitted mahal was the Lembai Dandapata of the Temple 

 chronicles. No Bisi of it is mentioned therein, but the villages 

 Delanga and Kalupara lay within it. Hence it is identifiable 

 with the modern Pargana of Lembai, in Central Puri, separated 



Bruton's Voyage. K>;}8, in a Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1745, 

 Vol. II. See the Antiq?; ies of Orissa, Vol. II, p. 164. 



