KADUR DISTRICT 261
the intercalary month, ate to honour of Mahadeo, under the na of
KoteshwarorKotilingeahwar,andlast forawhole month. M,Wilhams
in his Memoir on Broach mentions that one of the periodical gatherings
took place in r8ra. In that year the total number of visitors w
estimated at aogooo, and the most perfect order and good conduct are
said to have been maintained by the crowd. In x869 people began to
collect on April 13, and all w not over till May rt; the greatest
attendance at any o e time w estimated at r and the total
throughout the whole month at 500,000. The last fair was held in
x888, when the bed of the river was crowded with lingarar, which the
people in many cases carried away to their homes. During the time of
the fair the pilgrims lice in sheds and temporary huts. The Nmbeda
flows close by the site of the fair; but as the gathering takes place in
the hot season, and below the limit of the tide, f esh water is hard to
obtain. There a temple at Kadod consisting of one chamber about
r feet square, and entered by a door 5 feet a inches high and 3
flat 3 inches wide.
Kadoli.-Petty State in MAHI KANTHA, Bombay.
Kadur District.-District in the west of the State of Mysore, lying
between 12° 55′ and 13° 54′ N. and 75° 5′ and 76°.22′ E., with an area
of z,8r3 square miles. It is bounded on the north by Shimoga Dis.
trict; on the east by Chitaldroog and Tumkur Districts; on the south
by Hassan District; and on the west by the South Kanara District of
Madras.
The bur part of the District is composed of the most mountainous
region within the limns of Mysore. Bordered on the west by the
mighty Ghat range, rising at this part into some of the
lofliestpeak, between the Himalayas and the Nfgiris Physical
supporting on its centre the stupendous barrier of the sweats.
Baba Budan chain of ea superior elevation; between these towering
Bred with a complete network of lofty hills whose altitude
at certain points, as in the grand Matti peak of Kalass, renders. them
conspicuous landmarks even in this region of heights, while cangea of
modest pretensions extend throughout the north and east-this
D stricB with a slight exception eastwards, may truly be described a
pre-eminently the Malnad or' highland country.' No, are these moun-
rain toasts wanting in those charms of wood and water which tend to
sofen the harsher features of so ragged a landscape. For though the
minus rear themselves bareheaded into space, the slopes are thickly
clad with prim-al forest, through which the shining streams thread
their often headlong way, fertilising the nanrosv valleys and open glades,
till their waters descend to the level of the larger rivers, flowing in steep
and sunken channels, when ue den mists that cm-'t he face
of the country, only ffng as the ham of the morning sun increases.
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