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haps also Palia across the Chauka or so much of it as was inhabited at 
that time. In the north of the Kheri district we get into the jungles 
again as in Bahraich and exact boundaries are not to be expected. 
7. Bisara, there is a small parganah of this name west of parganah 
Kheri, there is no notice of it in the O. G. unless perhaps it may be 
alluded to casually in some of the long accounts of Kajput and other 
clans of which that work is full, to the exclusion of more precise infor¬ 
mation. 
8. Paila still extant, it included also Karanpiir to the north. 
9. Chhitiapur is the old name of Sitapiir. 
11. Saudi appears to have included so much of Katiari as was not 
in Pali, but where the line is to be drawn is not known. 
17. Kharkhila, The spelling is that of Blochmann’s text, but it 
appears it should be Karkliila and not Khar. The modern name is 
Karaona, and the first syllable is said to be the Sanskrit Jcara — a hand ; 
there is a legend about a Kaja who lost his hands and had them restored 
by bathing in a sacred tank at this place. 
18. Khankhatmau is now in the Parukhabad district of the N. W. P. 
21. Nimkhar. There is now no parganah of this name though the 
ancient and sacred town of Nimkhar or Nimsar is still in existence. 
This large estate comprised the modern parganahs of Aurangabad, Misrikh, 
Maholi, Kasta-Abganw, and Sikandarabad forming a long narrow strip 
running from north to south in the Sitapur and Kheri districts. 
The remaining parganahs are still extant and probably very nearly 
their former extent, though there have been here and there a few trans¬ 
fers of villages from one to another. 
In Nos. 3, 4, 6, and 17, the ruling clan is given as Asanin or Ahanin 
with variants Asin and Ahin. I would read in all these cases Ahbans. 
In the Persian character or is very like and may 
easily have been mistaken for it. The Ahbans were a powerful pro¬ 
prietary tribe in western Oudh for many centuries. I am in doubt as to 
the name in No. 16. It may be for Khumbi. There are one 
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or two parganahs unaccounted for in the Ain. These are : 
I. Barwan, between Pali and Sandi. In the Hardoi S. R. p. 95 
it is said that Barwan is mentioned in the Ain and the writer gives its 
area and revenue. I do not know where he got this information as there 
is no mention of Barwan in Blochmann’s text, nor is there any mahal 
having the area or revenue quoted in the S. R. 
II. Chandra. In the Sitapur S. R. p. 85 it is stated that the old 
name of this parganah was Haveli. But the Haveli or home county of 
this Sarkar is Khairabad which is separated from Chandra by Nimkhar 
and Sitapur. Some changes of villages from one parganah to another 
