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MUZAFFARPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 103 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUZAFFARPUR , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Patna See also:division of See also:Bengal. The town is on the right See also:bank of the Little See also:Gandak See also:river, and has a railway station. Pop. (1901), 45,617. The town is well laid out, and is an important centre of See also:trade, being on the See also:direct route from Patna to See also:Nepal. It is the headquarters of the See also:Behar See also:Light See also:Horse volunteer See also:corps and has a See also:college established in 1899. The DISTRICT OF MuzAFFARPIR has an See also:area of 3035 sq. m. It was formed in See also:January 18i5 out of the See also:great district of Tirhoot, which up to that See also:time was the largest and most populous district of See also:Lower Bengal. The district is an alluvial See also:plain between the See also:Ganges and the Great Gandak, the Baghmat and Little Gandak being the See also:principal See also:rivers within it. See also:South of the Little Gandak the See also:land is somewhat elevated, with depressions containing lakes toward the south-See also:east. See also:North of the Baghmat the land is lower and marshy, but is traversed by elevated dry ridges. The See also:tract between the two rivers is lowest of all and liable to floods.

Pop. (19oi), 2,754,790, showing an increase of 1.5 % in the.See also:

decade. See also:Average See also:density, 914 per sq. m., being exceeded in all India only by the neighbouring district of See also:Saran. See also:Indigo (superseded to some extent, owing to the fall in See also:price, by See also:sugar) and See also:opium are largely grown. See also:Rice is the See also:chief See also:grain See also:crop, and See also:cloth, carpets and pottery are manufactured. The district is traversed in several directions by the Tirhoot See also:system of the Bengal and North-Western railway. It suffered from drought in 1873-1874, and again in 1897-1898. SeeMu.affaspur District Gazetteer (See also:Calcutta, 1907).See also:superintendent at the Vatican; and it became under his hands a perfect See also:imitation of See also:painting. His ability and See also:industry soon gained for him a handsome See also:fortune. See also:Part of this he expended in assisting to found the See also:Academy of St See also:Luke in See also:Rome. He died in 1592, and was buried in the See also:church of See also:Santa Maria See also:Maggiore. Many of See also:Muziano's See also:works are in the churches and palaces of Rome; he also worked in See also:Orvieto and See also:Loreto.

In Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome, is one of his chief works, " St See also:

Jerome See also:preaching to Monks in the See also:Desert "; his " See also:Circumcision " is in the church of the Gesi, his " See also:Ascension " in the Araceli, and his " St See also:Francis receiving the Stigmata " in the church of the Conception. A picture by him, representing See also:Christ washing the feet of His disciples, is in the See also:cathedral of See also:Reims.

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