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further elucidation. Such facts, and more or less probable conjectures ; 
as I have been able to arrive at are included in the following notes. The 
mahals not mentioned are still extant under their old names, though it 
is of course quite uncertain whether their present area is the same as 
their former; in all probability, it is not. 
4. T/bhi. No parganah of this name. The most probable con¬ 
jecture, though it is no more than that, is that for we should read 
Othi. This is said to have been the local name for the country 
lying on the extreme east of the Sarkar, north of the two vast and un¬ 
defined parganalis of Pharkiya and Chhai of Sarkar Mungir ; and now 
included in parganah Nisankhpur Kora. The tradition is however a very 
vague one. 
6. Athais. Not found, and probably now known by some other 
name. 
7 to 10. Basri wa ghairah. Not found. I hazard the suggestion 
that we have under this name the present parganah of Nari digar on the 
north-east frontier of the Sarkar may be a copyist’s error for 
and the Persian digar is a commonly used equivalent for the Arabic 
ghair. This parganah is not otherwise traceable ; but I do not attach 
much importance to the suggestion. 
14. Pipra is a copyist’s error for Babra. 
18. Bahnur. There are several parganahs the names of which closely 
resemble each other, especially when written in Persian, such as Bahnur, 
Bhanwar, Bhaur, Bhura, all of which would be written jj.y or 
and in the Shikastah or even in the Naskh-ta’lik hand would easily be 
confounded. It appears that owing to this cause the names have been 
entered more than once, as all the mahals so named cannot be traced. 
32. Pulwara not found. 
33. See remark on No. 18 above. 
37. Buchhawar now Bachaur. 
38. Barsani, properly Parsani, It is not now a parganah but mere¬ 
ly a village in Babra, the residence of the Rajas of Turki. 
42. Tandah, not found. 
44. Tirhut Haveli. This is the strangest entry of all. There is 
now no parganah called Tirhut, and there seems good reason for be¬ 
lieving that there never was one so called. Tirhut (Sanskr. Tirabhukti) 
is the old name of the whole stretch of country from the Gandak to the 
Kosi, there is no evidence to shew that the name was ever restricted to 
a single mahal. Nor is there locally any tradition of there ever having 
been a Haveli Tirhut. The only two Havelis in the modern Tirhut 
region are those of Darbhanga and Hajipore. The latter is as we have 
seen duly recognized in the Ain, the former, however, appears merely as 
