Ponabalia Shamrail

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Ponabalia Shamrail, 1908

Village in the head-quarters subdivision of Backergunge District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated on the bank of the Sundha or Shugandha, 5 miles from Jhalakati. Population (1901), 498. Ram Bhadra Rai, zamindar of Ponabalia, is said to have defeated the Maratha army here in 1748. The village contains a temple of Siva, which is one of the fifty-one places of Hindu pilgrimage, scattered over India, where tradition relates that a limb or some por- tion of the body of the goddess Sati fell, while her husband Siva was perambulating the whole earth with her corpse on his shoulders. The nose of the goddess is said to have fallen at this place.

This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.