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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 20, p. 25.

PA TAN TO WN number ro8'.or iio, but none is of much architectural or archaeological importance. In these thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts are carefully preserved, of which a list has recently been made. The manufactures carried on at the present day are not of great importance, though there is a fair out-turn of swords, betel-nut slicers, patolas (variegated saris), embroidery, and pottery. The last is said to be superior to any of its kind in Gujarat, and is remarkable for its glaze. It is, however, of a very fragile; nature. Wood-carving and ivory-turning are also practised. The town is the most important centre for trade in the Kadi prdni, and its commercial facilities have been greatly increased since the opening of the line from Mehsana to Patan. The municipality, which was reconstituted on a partly elective basis in 1905, has an income of Rs. io,ooo from excise, customs, and tolls, besides an annual grant of Rs. 5,000 from the State. [J. Burgess and H. Cousens, Architectural Antiyuittes of Gujarat (1903)•l Patan Taluka (2).-South-easternmost tdluha of Satara District, Bombay, lying between 17° 8' and 17° 34' N. and 73° 39' and 74° 4' E., with an area of 438 square miles. It contains 203 villages, but no town. Patan is the head-quarters. The population in igol was 104,167, com- pared with 131,833 in 18g1. The density, 238 persons per square mile, is the same as the average of the District. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was 1•2 lakhs, and for cesses Rs. ii,ooo. Patan is hilly. The chief feature in the west is the Koyna valley running south, with lofty flanking hills. On the east the valleys of the Koyna, Tarli, and Kole open into the plains of the Kistna. The soil of the eastern valleys is good, yielding both early and late crops, chiefly jowdr and ground-nuts, and, when watered, sugar-cane. The rest of the soil is red, and except in the hollows where rice and sometimes sugar-cane are grown, is under nomadic cultivation. The Koyna and the Tarli with their feeders furnish abundance of water to the villages on and near their banks. Away from the rivers, both on the tops of the bills and in the valleys, especially during March, April, and May, water is scarce. The climate is cool and healthy in the hot season, but the chilly damp of the rains makes it feverish. Compared with the greater portion of the District the rainfall is heavy, averaging 67 inches annually. Patan Town (or Lalita Patan) (2).-One of the chief towns of Nepal, situated, approximately, in lat. 27° 41' N. and long. 85° 2o' E., on rising ground, a short distance from the southern bank of the Bagh- mati, about 2 miles south-east of Katmandu. Patan is thus described by Dr. Wright, formerly Surgeon to the British Residency in Nepal:- 'It is an older town than Katmandu, having been built in the reign of Raja Bir Deva in the Kaligat year 3400 (A. D. 299). It is also