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City of Aurungabad. 



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remuneration and vary from 2 to 10 rupees for each pupil month- 

 ly. The Mudrussa built by the enlightened founder of the city serves 

 for the purpose of the goal. Subjoined is a table of the number 

 of schools and scholars : 



Mahratta schools 18, - - - Pupils 328 

 Persian ditto 21, - - - ditto 83 



Guzerat ditto 3, - - - ditto 225 



Total... 42 636 



Tapals Three native daks leave the city daily for Hydera- 



bad, Berar, and Booranpoor : excepting the mail be 

 an express, it is not usual for the runners to proceed through the 

 night ; when however the case is urgent, a small bell is attached to 

 the dispatches signifying all possible haste to be observed and the 

 runners travel night and day ; it is customary to affix hieroglyphics 

 designating the different large towns, which are all well known, and 

 recognized by the runners. 



Five juttras are held in the course of the year. 

 Juttras. J •> 



The Khundobah juttra at Kurrumpoora in March ; 

 the Puchumba juttra at Gungabaree every Tuesday in July ; the 

 Surawun Somewar juttra near the Puttun gate, four days in 

 August; the Hursool ka Nahna juttra, one day in December; and 

 the Poha Ballajee juttra near the Jaffier gate, one day in September. 



The supply of water to the city is very abundant, and quite beyond 

 its present requirements, a large stream called the Gunda nulla, 

 swollen by the monsoon into a rapid torrent washes its western walls, 

 whilst a smaller stream named the Byan Khan nulla passes through 

 the centre of the town : the sources of both are derived from the 

 ranges on the north ; besides these streams aqueducts convey a 

 never failing supply from the waters that pour down from the hills, 

 and which are conveyed to the city with much ingenuity and labour 

 by means of stone conduits, to be dispersed around by innumerable 

 pipes. This lavish supply afforded abundant material for the inha- 

 bitants to indulge their inclinations, in their passion for fountains and 

 water works ; so numerous were these in former days, that Au- 

 rungabad was described as the city of fountains. One of the finest 

 aqueducts conveys water from the streams below the hills to the 



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