Bhusawar is a city and a

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in Bharatpur district in the state of

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Location

Bhusawar is situated about 55 km from Bharatpur and 138 km from state capital

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. Bhusawar is the Tehsil Headquarter of Bhusawar Tehsil of Bharatpur district. It is famous for pickles. Nithar (India)

History

R. D. Banerji identified Bhusawar with the Vusāvaṭa mentioned in an inscription from nearby Bayana dated to 8 January 955. The inscription records that a woman named Chittralekhā (possibly the queen consort to the Kachchhapaghata dynasty king Maṅgalarāja of

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) founded a temple to Vishnu at an unspecified location and endowed it with certain revenue grants for its upkeep. Among these revenue grants was a sum of three '' dramma''s from the ''maṇḍapikā'' (marketplace) in Vusāvaṭa, possibly collected as an ''

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'' fee on every horse-load of goods brought to the town's marketplace.

References

Cities and towns in Bharatpur district {{Bharatpurdivision-geo-stub