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OOJ.

OOJAL.-A river of Kattywar, rising in lat. 21° 31, long.
70° 51′, and flowing in a circuitous, but generally westerly
direction, for 75 miles, falls into the Bhader river, near the
town of Nurvee Bunder, in lat. 21° 27', long. 69° 59′.

OOJEANEE,1 in the British district of Etawah, lieu-E.I.C. Ms. Doc.

tenant-governorship of the North-West Provinces, a town on

of Routes, 32.

the route from Calpee to the cantonment of Etawa, and 172 2 Garden, Tables

miles S.E. of the latter. The road in this part of the route is

indifferent, the country level and cultivated. Lat. 26° 38',

long. 79° 17'.

OOJEIN,1* in the territory of Gwalior, or possessions of the

Scindia family, a city on the right bank of the river Seepra. It2

is of oblong outline, six miles in circumference, surrounded by

a stone wall with round towers. Though there is some waste

ground within this inclosure, much the greater part is densely

populated. The houses, which are much crowded together, are

some of brick, some of wood; but in the construction of the

former, a frame-work of wood is first made, and the intervals

then filled up with bricks. They are covered either with tiles

or lime terraces. The principal bazar is a spacious street, with

houses of two stories; the lower of which is built of stone,

and occupied by shops; the upper, of brick or wood, furnishes

the habitation of the owner and his family. There are four

* Ujjen of Tassin; Ujjayani of Wilson ;' Aujin of Jai Singh ; Ujjain of

Shakespear, Oojein of Briggs's Index; Owjain of Ayeen Akbery ; Oojein

of Busawun Lal; Ujain and Ujjayana of Prinsep (James); Ougein of

Rennell.

I

E.I.C. Ms. Doc.

2As. Res. vi. 39—

Hunter, Narrat.

of Journey from

Agra to Oujein.

1 Sanscrit Dict.

139.

2 As. Res. v. 185.

3 Diet. col. 41.
4 ii. 50.

Mem. of Ameer

Khan, 57.

6 India Tables,

ii. 105, 106.