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- Rangpur was second Amaravati surrounded by the Visistha Jahnavi in the north, the river Namdang in the west and the river Dimbawati in the south. It was surrounded by four successive mud forts with timber fence on the top and inside of which there were brick and stone ramparts, masonroy buildings, stores of gold, silver, copper, bell-metal, scent, precious ornament, arms and ammunition and tanks full of lotus. Besides these, Rangpur,as he writes, was covered by the lines of trees like-mango, jackal fruit, paniyal, jamu, arecanut, orange and coconut. (en)
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