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place in his list of Dravidian tongues, though he admitted that it con-
tained a Dravidian element. The latest inquiries, however, confirm its
connexion with Dravidian. Among its most striking points of likeness
to the South-Indian group are some of its pronouns and numerals, the
use of post-positions instead of prepositions, the absence of a compari-
son of adjectives by suffixes, the lack of the relative pronoun except as
borrowed, and the negative conjugation of the verb.
Bramhapuri (Bramhapurl).-Northern tahsil of Chanda District,
Central Provinces. In igoi its area was 3,324 square miles, and its
population 220,453 persons. In 1905 a new tahsil was constituted at
Garhchiroli, to which 2,527 square miles, including fifteen zaminddri
estates with a total area of over 2,000 square miles, were transferred
from Bramhapuri, the Bramhapuri tahsil at the same time receiving a
small accession of loo square miles of territory from Chànda. The
revised totals of area and population of the Bramhapuri tahsil are
897 square miles and 115,049 persons. The population in 1891 of the
area now constituting the tahsil was 144,157. The density is 128 per-
sons per square mile, and the tahsil contains 340 inhabited villages. Its
head-quarters are at Bramhapuri, a village of 4,238 inhabitants, 77 miles
from Chanda town by road. The tahsil contains 443 square miles of
Government forest. The land revenue demand in 1903-4 for the area
now constituting the tahsil was approximately Rs. 82,ooo. Bramhapuri
is almost wholly rice country, and contains a number of fine irrigation
tanks in the larger villages.
Brindâ.ban (from brindd, Ocynzum sanctum, and ban, ° a grove').--
Town in the District and tahsil of Muttra, United Provinces, situated
in 27° 33' N. and 77° 42' E., near the Jumna, and connected by a
metalled road and the branch line of the Cawnpore-Achhnera Railway
with Muttra city. Population (1901), 22,717, of whom only I,4o9 are
Muhammadans. The town has no political history, but according to
tradition was the place where Krishna passed most of his youth and
where his mistress, Radhà, loved to dwell. It is visited annually by
thousands of Hindu pilgrims from the most distant parts of India:
It contains about 1,ooo temples, and the peacocks and monkeys with
which the neighbourhood abounds enjoy special endowments. The
town itself dates from the sixteenth century, when several holy men
from different parts of India settled here, and four of the existing
temples were built about that time. The finest of these is the temple
of Govind Deva, built in 1590 by Raja Man Singh of Amber (Jaipur),
a magnificent building of red sandstone, cruciform, with a vaulted roof.
It has been restored by the British Government. The development
of various Vaishnava cults connected with the worship of Krishna has
caused the growth of the place. Some large temples were erected in
the nineteenth century, one of which was built on the model of Southern
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