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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 15, p. 150.

150 KASUR TOWN expenditure Rs. 5o,9oo. In 1903-4 the income and expenditure were Rs. 60,400 and Rs. 54,5oo respectively. The chief source of income was octroi (Rs. 50,000), while the main items of outlay were conservancy (Rs. 4,ooo), education (Rs.8,5oo), hospitals and dispensaries (Rs. 6,3oo), and administration (Rs. r8,8oo). Kasur is now, next to Lahore, the most important town in the District. It is the centre of local trade, and exports grain and cotton to the annual value of TO lakhs. Harness and other leathern goods are manufactured, and there are 4 cotton-ginning and z cotton-pressing factories, which in x904 em- ployed 436 hands. The chief educational institution is the Anglo- vernacular high school maintained by the municipality: An industrial school formerly existed, but is now extinct. The town also contains a hospital, and since 2899 has been an out-station of the American Presbyterian Mission. Katak.-District, subdivision, and town in Bengal. See CUTTACK. Katakhal.-River in Caebar District, Eastern Bengal and Assam. See DHALESWARI. Katas.-Sacred pool in the centre of the Salt Range, in Jhelum District, Punjab, situated in 32° 43′ N. and 72° 59′ E., r5 miles north of Pind Dadan Khan, at an elevation of over 2,000 feet. The pool lies at the head of the Ganlya nullah, a small ravine between low stony hills, and is. fed by springs. From it issues a small stream which flows past Choa Saidan Shah into the Gandhala valley. . It is visited every year by thousands of pilgrims who come to bathe in its waters, The Brahmanical story is that Siva being inconsolable at the death of his wife Sat!, 'the true one,' tears rained from his eyes and formed the two pools of Katis or Kataksha, `.raining eyes,' and Pushkar nea;,--Ajmer. The pool is partly artificial, the rock having been cut away to. enlarge the natural basin in the bed of the ravine. Just above it once stretched a strong masonry wall which dammed up the stream, so as to enclose a large lake ; but the water now escapes through the broken rocks and ruins of the embankment. About 8oo feet below the pool the GAnlya nullah passes between two low flat-topped hills, on which the ancient town is said to have stood. At the foot of Kotera, the west hill,: are the -remains of twelve temples clustered in a corner of an old fort::: These are called the Sat-Ghara, or ' seven temples,' and are popularly attributed to the Pandavas, who are said to have lived at Katas-during a portion of their seven years' wanderings. Their style is that of the Kashmir architecture which prevailed from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and they comprise a group of six small temples placed in pairs at regular distances around one large central temple. Facing this to the east is the basement of a great structure, which was in all probability a Buddhist stupa. South-west of the village of Choa Saidan Shah, which lies 2 miles