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SUL 407 Of rain-streams the most important are the Kandu, the Píli, the Tengha, the Nandhia. The Kándu takes its rise in a morass in the village of Ráepur, pargana Simrauta, and in the upper or western portion of its course skirts the Inhauna pargana, being there a shallow stream known by the name of Naiya. Further on, near Jagdíspur, it becomes a small river with rugged banks, and is then called the Kándu, under this name it proceeds onward to the Gumti with which it ultimately unites itself, forming during the last portion of its course the boundary between the Isauli and Jagdíspur parganas. The Pili nadi becomes in the rains a considerable stream, but at other times consists of a string of disconnected jhils and swamps. Their ramifications cover a great portion of the south of Chánda, but where they commence it is im- possible to say--not apparently anywhere in this district. They appear rather to belong to a vast system, and to be continuous with other similar cnes in Rae Bareli , the connection being maintained by those in the Amethi and Mohanganj parganas. The Tengha is so called from a village of the same name in pargana Amethi, where it is spanded by an old masonry, bridge erected about half a century ago by Ní Ghulam Husen, the Názim of the period. In the first portion of its course it consists of two branches, the village of Sukulpur being the point of bifurcation after flowing south-east for a distance of five miles from that village, it crosses the borders of the Partabgarh district, and falls eventually into the Chamrauri, a tributary of the Sai. The Nandhia nadi first appears in the village of that name in pargana Tappa Asl; for some way it holds a course parallel to one of the branches of the Tengha, but ultimately unites with the main body of that stream, at the point where it dis- charges itself into the Chamrauri. Both the Tengha, and the Nandhia are streams of some consequence as their channels are deep though narrow, and form the outlet for the superfluous waters of extensive series of jhils. Lakes.--.One of these series known as jhíl Lodhai commences in the village of Bhalgaon and stretches through Goáwán to Naráin, a distance of thirteen miles, where the lacustrine formation ceases, and is succeeded by one of the branches of the Tengha. A second series is composed principally of the "Rája's Bándh," a dam of great magnitude in the village of Katra Ráni, thrown up between twenty and thirty years ago by Rája Bisheshwar Singh of Amethi, the name, though strictly speaking it refers to the dam ítself, is commonly given to a vast sheet of water several miles in length, the collection of which is in great measure due to it. Below the Bándh the line of jhíls is resumed, and goes on until it gives place to the second branch of the Tengha. This branch is naturally of less importance than it formerly was owing to the interception of so much water by the Rája's Bandh, but it proved useful when that embankment burst two years ago in carrying off the tremendous quantity of water which was then set free, and which for a time caused a partial inundation of some of the adjacent villages. The jhils connected with the Nandhia nadi may be traced back from the head of that stream to the village of Bisára in the Isauli pargana ; from the latter as far as Dhamaur it is called Jhíl Naiya, the remaining portion of it being known as Bandh Bujhwà.