Banganga, Basti

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Banganga, Basti

('Arrow-river'). — A hill stream rising in the south of Nepal (2 7 42' N., 83 6' E.), which flows for about 18 miles through Basti District and joins the Burhl Rapt! ('old' Rapti) at Kabrahl Ghat, where the road from Basti through Bans! to Nepal crosses the latter river. Timber from Nepal is floated down. Traces of the bed of another river of the same name still exist south of the Rapti and the upper course of the Katnehia. A tributary of the Kuwana in Basti, which formed one branch of this, is still called Banganga. [Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports, vol. xxii, p. 4.]