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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 219.

BAJA UR 2I9 cessively the boundary between Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj States, be- tween Keonjhar and the District of Cuttack, and between Cuttack and Balasore. In the latter District the Brahmani joins it in 20° 45' N. and 86° 49' E., after the Baitarani has had a course of 224 miles, and the united stream flows, under the name of the DHAMRA, into the Bay of Bengal. The river is navigable as high as Olokh, I5 miles from its mouth; beyond this point it is not affected by the tide, and is fordable during the hot season. This river is the Styx of Hindu mythology; and a legend has it that Rama, when marching to Ceylon to rescue his wife Sita from the ten-headed demon Ravana, halted on its banks on the borders of Keonjhar. In commemoration of this event large numbers of people visit the river every January. The chief tributaries are the Salandi and Matai in Balasore District. The principal places on the banks are Anandapur in Keonjhar State, and Olokh and CHAXNDBLI in Balasore District. The river is crossed by the Orissa High-level Canal, which derives from it a portion of its water-supply. Bajana.-State in the Kathiawar Political Agency, Bombay, lying between 22° 58' and 23° io' N. and 71° 40' and 7I° 59' E., with an area of 183 square miles. The population in 190o was 10,279, residing in twenty-seven villages. The revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 7I,ooo, and 38 square miles were cultivated. Bajana ranks as a fourth-class State in Kathiawar. The Jats or Jats of Bajana originally came from Vanga Bazar in Sind, whence they were driven by one of the rulers in con- sequence of their refusing him a bride from their community, and were forced to seek shelter with the Ponwars in the Mandav hills near Than. The Jats were employed in the siege of Champaner, and there displayed such prowess that the Sultan bestowed on their leader, Malik Hedoji, the twenty-four villages subject to Bajana. Shortly after this they conquered Mandal from the Jhalas. Malik Isaji next established himself at Valivda and subsequently at Varahi, which he took from Ravmas, while Malik Lakha and Malik Haidar Khan settled respec- tively in Sitapur and Vanod and in Bajana. Varahi and its neigh- bourhood is called Great Jatvar, and Bajana and its neighbourhood Little Jatvar. Bajaur.-A tract of country in the Dir, Swat, and Chitral Agency, North-West Frontier Province, lying between 34° 25' and 35° 5' N. and 70° i' and 72° E. It comprises five valleys: namely, Chaharmung, Babukara, Watalai (or Ut-lai), Rud in the valley of the Rud river, and the Sur Kamar valley, in which lies Nawagai. In the last, the Nawagai, Chamarkand, and Suran ravines unite to form the Pipal, or Ambahar river, which falls into the Swat some distance below its junction with the Panjkora. Bajaur is bounded on the north by the Panjkora river; on the east by the Utman Khel and Mohmand territories, the latter also bordering it on the south: and on the west by the crest of the