an extensive town and district of Hindustan, province of Bahar, most advantageously situated between the rivers Soane and Ganges. It is fertile and tolerably well cultivated, and produces barley, wheat, tobacco, and some pease of a small kind. It is estimated to contain more than a million of inhabitants, in the proportion of nineteen Hindus to one Mahommadan. Its chief towns are Chunar, Boujepore, and Arrah. The town is situated on the east side of the Gurrah river, in the district of Khyrabad. It was formerly a large place, but has now fallen greatly to decay. Long. 79. 55 E. Lat. 27. 39 N. There is another town of this name, in the province of Delhi, belonging to the Sikhs, which has also fallen into decay. It is 105 miles north by west from Delhi. Long. 76. 38 E. Lat. 30. 12 N.

SHAIJJEHANPOOR, a considerable town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Malwah, situated on the banks of the Sagormutty river, forty miles north-north-east from Oojain. Long. 76. 18 E. Lat. 23. 28 N. There is another town of the same name, in the province of Delhi, district of Bareilly, situated on the Gurrah river, ninety-five miles north-east from Lucknow. Long. 79. 53 E. Lat. 27. 51 N. Both these towns are called after Shah Jehan, who reigned in the middle of the seventeenth century.