SONE, a tributary to tho Ganges. It rises on tho Amarkantak table-land, in lat. 22° 41' N., and long. 82° 7' E., 3500 feet above the sea. Length, 465 miles ; receives the Koel, 140 ; Kunher, 130 ; Johila, 100 miles. Including the Phalgu and other rivers falling into the Ganges above Rajrnahal, 42,000 square miles drained. The navigation of the liver is not considered available. It is the chief tribumry of the Ganges on its right bank. 'rhe .Amarkantak table - land also supplies the sources of the Nerbadda and the Mahanadi, and is included in a tract of wild country transferred to the state of Rewah. In the rainy season native boats of large tonnage occasionally proceed for a short distance up stream ; but navigation is even then rendered dangerous by the extraordinary violence of the stream, and during the rest of the year becomes impossible, owing to the small depth of water. There is one characteristic com mon to the Bag,hel of Rewah, the Bundela of Bundelkhand, and the Rajput of Gwalior and Malwa, a dislike to labour or service away from their homes ; they generally leave tilling of the soil to the servile classes, and are regarded as the heads of the local society. Many of the Rajputs
in the states of Central India give themselves up to sloth and the inanoderate use of opium. In Malwa, Bhopal, Ujjain, Mundipur, Rutlarn, Dhar, Jowra, Augur, Nemuch, Shoojawulpur, awl 13hilsa are the principal marts. It is the llyrani abltya of the ancient Magadha and Prachii, and the Erranaboas of Strabo, Arrian, and Pliny. Palibothra was situated, as stated by Megasthenes, at the junction of the Ganges and Erranaboas, and it is believed to be the modern Patna, the same 118 the Pataliputra of the Chinese pilgrim Iliwen Thsang.-7'r. of Hind. p. 225.