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&c., and in printing, bookbinding; and. gardening. The jail costs
abont Rs. b,xoo a year, and the manufactures bring in about Rs. i;t5o,
Of the schools, one is for boys and the other for girls. The former. is
a high school, with a daily average attendance in r9o4-5 of r64. The
bospital has a modauon for r4 in-patients.
Jhalrapatan Town (locally called Plum).-Heel quarters of the
P3[- iahril and the commercial capital of the State of Jhalawar,
Rajpumns, situated in 24° 32′ N. and 76° 10′ E., at. the foot of a low
range of hills and on the left bank of a stream known as the Chandra,
filings. Population (r9or), 7,955. Several modes of deriving the
rent. Some say the word means the 'city of belts,' and
that the old oorvn was so called because it contained leg temples with
bell,; others that it is the' city' (pants) of `springs' (I-hal a), the latter
abounding in the rivulet above mentioned; while others again say
that the word jhalra refers to the Rajput clan (Jhala), to which the
founder of the new town belonged. The t- possesses e combined
post and telegraph office, a mall lock-up for prix entenced to
short terms, a cular school attended by about r57 boys, and
a dispensary for out-patients
A little to the smith of the present town there formerly existed a city
called Chandravati, said to have been built by Raja Chandra Sena
of MAIwd, who, according to Abul Fasl, was the immediate successor of
the famous Vikmmiditya. General Cunningham visited the site in
ig64-5, and wrote:-
'Of its antiquity there can be no doubt, as I obtained ss eral
specimn of old cast copper without legends, besides a is, of
the still more ancient square pieces' of silver which probably range.ss
high as Gom 5- to r e. c. These e, perhaps, sufficient to
show that the place w copied long before the time of Chandau
So..; but as none of the misting vu mind appear to be older than
the sixth o enth century A .D., it is not improbable that the city
may have been vrefounded by Chandra Sena,.And named after himself
Chandravati. I think it nearly certain that it must have been the
capital of Piolemy's district of Srandsahah's, and, if su, the tradition
which assigns its foundation to the beginning of the Christian em
would seem to be correct.' -
This ant city is said to have been destroyed, and its temples
despoiled, in the time of Autangaab, and the principal remains are now
clustered together Do the northern bank of the Chandmbhaga stream.
The largest and the earliest of these is the celebrated Angam temple
of S1taleswar-Mahadeva, which Mr. Fergusson described as 'the most
elegant specimen of columnar architecture' that he had seen in India,
an opinion fully concurmd in by General Cunningham. The date of
this temple was put by them at about n. n. 600. It was just to the
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