The land is prepared for cotton with the bakhar or paring-plough, which is taken over it two or three times before the breaking of the rains. The seed is sown through a hollow bamboo tube called sarta which is trailed in the wake of the bakhar and held up by a woman who drops the seed through it. The seeds are previously washed in cow dung and water to prevent them adhering together by the threads of lint. The proper season for sowing cotton is from the first to the third week in June in Mriga Nakshatra. It has never quite closed again, and since then the crack has remained. The enraged husband struck the linga with his spear and made a hole which is still visible. Near the temple is a tank, known locally as Shankh  (conch-shell) Tirtha or Sukla (white), which Mr. Hira Lal suggests may be the Hans (Swan) Tirtha mentioned in the inscription of the temple of Lakshman at Ramtek. The inscription states that bathing in the Hans-Tirtha makes one clean of sin like the whiteness of a swan. Thus, the epithet of white may have come to be attributed to the tank, and the name Hans may have been changed to Shankh. There is a fort said to have been built by the Bhonslas with brick walls resembling those of Chanda town, and at some distance is a large field known as the Juna Killa or ‘old fort’ This was probably the site of the fortress of the early kings. In the field large bricks are found like those at Mansar. Nagardhan is said to be the first place to which the Ponwar Rajputs came after leaving Dhara, their reside here, who may formerly have been soldiers. The village has a primary school and a post office and the proprietor is a Tilokchandi Bias Rajput.