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XX. Description of a Jdtrd, or Fair, which takes place annually at the Hot 
Wells, about fifty miles in a South-Easterly direction from Surat. By the late 
Dr. Wurre. 
(Communicated by the Bousay Brawcu of the Royar Asraric Soctnry.) 
Read 21st of January 1832. 
Stirat, 22d of April 1810. 
Curiosity to be a spectator of the celebration of a religious ceremony, 
which was reported to draw together annually from 100,000 to 200,000 
persons, led me to the resolution of visiting the Hot Wells, situated at the 
foot of the hills, about fifty miles in a south-easterly direction from this city. 
The place is vulgarly called Une, or in full, and more definitely, Dévaki- 
Uncei, i.e. “the Divine Heat,” from a provincial vocable signifying ‘ heat,’ but 
in Sanscrit and the Purdia, which records the fable of its history, Ushna- 
udaki, a compound from Ushna warm and Udaka water. 
The waters are resorted to annually at the full moon of Chaitra, which 
occurred this year (1810) on the 19th of April, at which period alone the tem- 
perature of them is affirmed by the Brahmans to be miraculously lowered 
for the purpose of enabling the pious devotee ta avail himself of their holy 
and purifying influence in the form of a. bath. This belief, as well as that 
of its divine origin, has attached to this natural phenomenon a veneration 
of the most profound description, and a train of circumstances minutely 
recorded in the Seanda Purdna, with all that extravagance of fiction and 
wildness of fable, characteristic of Hind&a mythology, impresses the minds 
of the natives with respect and awe, and conciliates that facility of credence 
which they so readily bestow upon all their religious histories. The sum of 
the particulars, as recorded to have happened at a very remote period, is as 
follows : 
Sirs, the wife of Rama, or Rama Cuanpra the seventh Avatdra, having 
been stolen by the demon RAvaw 4, in the form of a beggar, near Nashuk 
Trimbuck, the hero, by the advice of the Rishis, resolved on performing a 
