332 F. S. Growse— The Etymology of Local Names in N India. [No.* 4, 
’Abd-un-Nabi, Governor from 1660 to 1668 ; Panna-pur founded in 1725 
A. D. ; Raj-pur, near Brinda-ban, so named with reference to the Raj-Ghat, 
by a Sanadh Brahman from Kamar in the 16th century ; Ram-pur, named 
after the Ram-tal, a place of pilgrimage there ; Rasul-pur ; Salim-pur, dat¬ 
ing from the rei<m of Salim Shah ; ’Askar-pur, a modern alternative name 
for Satoha; Shah-pur, and Dhak-pura. Of these 32 names, there are only 
five as to which any doubt can be entertained j all the remainder are clearly 
modern. 
In the Mat pargana are 141 villages, and 41 end in pur ; viz., Abhay- 
pura, settled by a Jat, Abliay Sinh,from Kaulana ; Ahmad-pur ; Akbar-pur, 
Aman-ullah-pur; Badan-pur ; Baikunth-pur, founded according to local 
tradition 300 years ago ; Baland-pur, founded in the 17th century by a Jat 
named Balavant; Bali-pur, founded by Bali, a Jat from Bajana about 1750 
A. D.; Begam-pur; Bulak-pur; Chand-pur, of modern Jat foundation ; Dau- 
lat-pur ; Faridun-pur ; Firoz-pur ; Hamza-pur; Hasan-pur ; Tnayat-pur ; 
Ja’far-pur ; Jahangir-pur ; Jat-pura, a modern off-shoot from the adjoining 
village of Slial; Khan-pur; Khwaja-pur; Lal-pur, founded by a Jat from 
Parsauli; Makhdum-pur ; Mir-pur ; Mubarak-pur; Mu’in-ud-dinpur ; Nabi- 
pur ; Nanak-pur, a modern off-shoot from Musmina ; Nausher-pur; Nur- 
pur ; Pabbi-pur ; Pati-pura, a modern colony from the Jat village of Dune- 
tiya; Rae-pur, recently settled from Musmina ; Sadik-pur; Sadr-pur; 
Sakat-pur; Sikandar-pur ; Suhag-pur ; Sultan-pur, and Udhan-pur. As to 
the foundation of 6 out of these 41 villages nothing is known ; the remain¬ 
ing 35 are distinctly ascertained to be modern. 
Of the 203 villages in the Maha-ban pargana, 43 have the ending pur ; 
viz., ’Abd-un-Nabi-pur ; ’Ali-pur ; Amir-pur ; Islam-pur ; Bahadur-pur ; 
Balaram-pur, recently founded by Soblia Rae Kayath ; Banarasi-pur, found¬ 
ed by a Brahman Banarasi, who derived his own name from the modern 
appellation of the sacred city called of old Varanasi; Bhankar-pur ; Bich- 
puri, of modern Jat foundation ; Daulat-pur; Fath-pura ; Ghiyas-pur; Gohar- 
pur ; Habfb-pur ; Hayat-pur ; Hasan-pur ; Ibrahfm-pur ; ’Fsa-pur, founded 
by Mirza ’Isa Tarkhan, Governor of Mathura in 1629 A. D. ; Jadon-pur ; 
Jagadis-pur, founded by a Parasar, Jagadeva, whose descendants are still on 
the spot and claim no great antiquity ; Jamal-pur ; Jogi-pur ; Kalyan-pur ; 
Kasim-pur; Khan-pur; Kishan-pur, recently settled from the village of 
Karab ; Lal-pur ; Manohar-pur ; Mohan-pur ; Mubarak-pur ; Muzaffar-pur ; 
Kabi-pur ; Nasir-pur ; Nur-pur ; Rae-pur ; Sayyid-pur; Sliihab-pur ; Shah- 
pur ; Slializad-pur ; Sher-pur ; Tayyib-pur, and Zakariya-pur. Of these 43 
villages, 35 are certainly quite modern ; as to the remaining 8 nothing can 
be affirmed positively. 
The 6th and last pargana, Sa’dabad, contains 129 villages, of which 31 
have the ending pur ; viz., Abhay-pura, of modern Jat foundation; Bagh- 
