Lieut.-Colonel Tod on the Religious EstabUshments of Mewar. 291 



yields in proportion to its violence, or to the nerve of the owner of the 

 vessel. The appearance of a long-denied heir may deprive him of half his 

 patrimony, and force him to lament his parents' distrust in natural causes ; 

 while the accidental mistake of touching forbidden foods on particular 

 fasts requires expiation, not by flagellation or seclusion, but by the penance 

 of the purse. 



There is no donation too great or too trifling for the acceptance of Crish- 

 NA, from the baronial estate to a patch of meadow-land ; from the gemmed 

 coronet to adorn the image of the god to the widow's mite ; nor is there a 

 principality in India which does not diminish its fisc to add to the revenues 

 of Nat'hdwara. What effect the milder rites of the shepherd-god have pro- 

 duced on the martial adorers of Siva we know not, but assuredly Eklinga, the 

 tutelary divinity of Mewar, has to complain of being defrauded of half his 

 dues since Kaniya transferred his abode from the Yamuna to the Bunas. 

 By a strange inconsistency, the revenues assigned by the Rana to Kaniya, 

 who under the epithet of Pi lam bra (or god of the yellow mantle) has a dis- 

 tinguished niche in his domestic chapel, far exceed those of the Aveno-er 

 (Eklinga), whose vicegerent he is. The grants or patents from the Rana, 

 the head of all the martial races,* defining the privileges and immunities of 

 the shrine, are curious documents.t 



The extension of the sanctuary by the Rana beyond the vicina^-e of the 

 shrine became a subject of much animadversion ; and in delegating judicial 



" was established there, who sold to seafaring men certain arrows endowed with the peculiar virtue 

 " of allaying storms, if shot into the waves by a young mariner. Upon the vessel arriving safe, 

 " the young archer was sent by the crew to offer thanlcs and rewards to the priestesses. His pre- 

 " sents were accepted in the most graceful manner ; and at liis departure the fair priestesses, who 

 " had received his embraces, presented to him a number of shells, which afterwards he never 

 " failed to use in adorning his person." — Tour through France. 



When the early Christian warrior consecrated this mount to his protector St. Michel, its name 

 was changed from Mons Jovis (because dedicated to Jupiter), to Tumba, supposed from tumu- 

 lus, a mound ; but as the Saxons and Celts placed pillars on all these mounts, dedicated to the 

 Sun-god Belenus, Bal, or Apollo, so it is not unlikely that the derivation of Tumba is from 

 the Sanscrit t'humba, or st'humba, a pillar, instead of from tumulus. 



* Hindupali, vulgo Hinduput, " chief of the Hindu race," is a title justly appertaining to the 

 Ranas of Mewar. It lias, however, been assumed by chieftains scarcely superior to some of his 

 vassals, though with some degree of pretension by Sevaji, who, had he been spared, miglit have 

 worked out the redemption of his nation, and of the Rana's house, from which he sprung. 



t Sec Appendix to this paper, Nos. ix and x. 



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