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KOPRAD.

Kopra'd village, ten miles north of Bassein, has a Christian church dedicated to the Espirito Sancto or Holy Ghost with a congregation of 2415. It is sixty feet long by twenty-two broad and twenty-seven high, and has a house for the vicar who has a monthly allowance of £1 9s. (Rs. 14-8) from the British Government. There is a violin-player but no parish school. An inscribed stone (3' 5" x 1' 2" x 7") of S. 1386, H. 868 (A.D. 1464) lies (April 1882) near the house of the headman of Koprad a Samvedi Brahman. The inscription is in Devanagari letters. It mentions Musalman names, and the names of Mahim, Thana, Koprad, and Bimbstan probably Bhimbdi or Bhiwndy.