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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 181.

RAMPA 18T and a fine temple richly adorned with carved stone. Two broad and well-kept roads, crossing at right angles from the centre of the town, are lined with masonry shops and a few ornamental private buildings. The rest of the town consists of the usual mud houses. Ramnagar is administered under Act XX of 1856, with an income of about RS. 2,500. There is a considerable trade in grain; and riding-whips, wickerwork stools, and chairs are largely made. The public buildings include a school. Ramnagar Village (2).-Village in the Aonla tahsil of Bareilly Dis- trict,United Provinces, situated in 28'22"N. and 79'8'E., 8 miles north of Aonla. The place is celebrated for the ruins in its neighbourhood. A vast mound rises on the north of the village, with a circumference of about 32 miles, which still bears the name of Ahichhattra and is identified with the capital of the ancient kingdom of Panchala and the place visited by Hiuen Tsiang in the seventh century. In one portion of the mound a conical heap of brick towers 68 feet above the plain, crowned by the ruins of a Hindu temple. Large quantities of stone carvings, Buddhist railings, and ornamental bricks have been found in various parts of these mounds, and a series of coins bearing inscrip- tions which may be dated approximately in the first or second century B. c. The kings who struck them have been conjecturally identified with the Sunga dynasty mentioned in the Puranas. [Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports, vol. i, p. 255 ; Coins of Ancient India, p. 79; V. A. Smith, Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1897, p. 303; Progress Report, Epi,raphical Branch, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 1891-2.] Rampa.-A hilly tract in the Agency of Godavari District, Madras, lying between 17° r9' and 17° 49' N. and 81° 32' and 81° 58' E., with an area of about Boo square miles. Commencing about 20 miles from Rajahmundry, the country presents a succession of hills from 2,ooo to 4,000 feet high, extending back from the northern bank of the Godavari almost to the Sileru river. It takes its name from the little village of Rampa, and was originally held as a jagir by the mansabddrs of that place. In 1858, owing to the unpopularity of the mansabdar, disturbances broke out which lasted till 1862. A police force was then recruited among the hillmen. In 1879 the Scheduled Districts Act was extended to this tract; and in the same year there took place a second rising called the Rampa rebellion, which involved the employment of troops. It was not finally quelled till 1881, when the leader Chendrayya was killed. The mansabdar had been deported early in 1880, and a settlement made with most of the muttahddrs in 1879. These latter still hold the greater part of the country, paying a light tribute (kattubadi). The most important of them are the muttahdars of Vellamuru and Musarimilli ; the former in particular