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PANDUA , a ruined See also:city in See also:Malda See also:district of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, once a See also:Mahommedan See also:capital. It is situated 7 M. N.E. of Malda, and about 20 M. from the other See also:great ruined city of See also:Gaur (q.v.), from which it was largely built. It was probably originally an outpost of Gaur, and See also:grew in importance as Gaur became unhealthy. In A.D. 1353 Haji Shamsuddin Ilyas, the first See also:independent See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Bengal, transferred his capital from Gaur to Pandua; but the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of its prosperity was See also:short, and in A.D. 1453 the capital was transferred back to Gaur. Its only celebrated See also:building is the Adina See also:Mosque, which was described by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Fergusson as the finest example of See also:Pathan See also:architecture in existence. This great mosque was built by Sikandar Shah in 1369 (see See also:INDIAN ARCHITECTURE). Pandua now, like Gaur, is almost entirely given over to the See also:jungle.
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