Banas

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 699

Banas, or BUNAS, the name of three rivers of India.—(1) A river of Rajputana, rising in the Aravalli Mountains, flows NE. through Mewar for 120 miles, then SE., and falls into the Chambal, after a total course of 300 miles.—(2) A river which also rises in the Aravalli Mountains, and after a south-westward course of 180 miles, is lost in the Rann of Cutch.—(3) A river of Chutia Nagpur, Bengal, has a north-westward course of about 70 miles, and falls into the Son, near Rampur.

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