SJOAai TIL UK 36~.
Tt is a fairly thriving industrial centre, and is well-known for its silk-'
weaving:
Sagaing- (or Sit-kaing, ` the branch of a sit' tree') dates as a capital
from A: D. 1315, when Athin Khaya made himself independent of the
Shan kingdom of Pinya. In 1364 Athin Khaya's grandson, Thadomin-
pay-, founded the kingdom of Ava, and Sagaing was destroyed by the
Shans. It was at Sagaing that the Manipuri invasion of 1733 was
checked ; but the town did not' again become a capital till r 760,: when
a city, with. circumference' of'2 miles, was built by Nawngdawgyi, the
eldest son of Alaungpaya; only to lapse into comparative, insignificance
on his death. The old' city lies; to the north of the present town, north
of the izingyan creek and east of the Sigongyi, pagoda.' An attempt
was made by the Barman garrisons of Sagaing' to stop the British -
flotilla ascending the Irrawaddy in the i885 expedition; but the forts;
being inadequately defended on the land side, were soon captured.
Sagaing was constituted a municipality in 1888. The 'municipal
income and expenditure during the ten years ending r9oi averaged
RS. 27,000. In x903-4 the income was Rs.35,700, including
Rs. 14,700 from the bazars and Rs. 3 8oo house and land tax; and the
expenditure was Rs. 36,ooo, the chief items being conservancy
(Rs. d,6oo), hospital (Rs. 5,5oo), roads (Rs. 3,goo); and lighting
(Rs. 2,9oo). The municipality owns a large and & 'small " bazar, and
supports a hospital with 64 beds. There' is an Angl'o-verr aoular :school'
at Sagaing, maintained till recently by -the municipality at a, cost' of
Rs. 2,3oo annually. It is now maintained by Government:
Sagar.-District, taks,4 and town in the Central Provinces. See
SAUGOR.
Sagar Taluk.-Western taluk of Shimoga District, Mysore lying
between 13° 51' and I4° 2o' N. and 74° 38' and 75° r8' E., with an
area of 666 square miles. The population in r9ol-was 56,818, com-
pared with 58,999 in 189x. The tdluk contains 'one town, Sagar
(population, 3,103), the head-quarters, and 245 villages. 'The land
revenue demand in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,71,000. The west and great
part of the north and south are bounded by the Western Ghats, from
which a ridge crosses the tdluk from west to east. The extreme west is
not more than 8 miles from the sea: Devarkonda and Govardhangiri
are the principal heights: The Sharavati flows through the middle in
a north-westerly direction, receiving the Yenne-hole at the frontier, where
it turns west, forming the celebrated GERsoPPA FALL$ and continuing
along the boundary. The Varada rises in the north-east and flows' oaf
north; The whole t4luk is considered Malnad, but the south-west'and
north-east, separated mostly by the Sharavati, differ a good cal, ' In
the former the rice-fields bear a double-; crop' annually, but the arecas
pepper, and cardamom gardens are somewhat inferior. This tract
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