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goddess is Shri ]\Iata Ambika, the sole power whereby 

 the prayers of mankind are fulfilled. To her be 

 praise and glory ! " 



I told the Hindu devotees of this great power what 

 had occurred to the Amijhara, and they were highly 

 delighted to hear it, looking down upon the Jains as 

 they did much as a High Church clergyman in Eng- 

 land regards Dissenting preachers, or as a Roman 

 Catholic bishop regards High Church English clergy- 

 men, or as a devotee of Xature looks down upon them 

 all. On my suggesting that they might be of some 

 use to me in calming the minds of the pilgrims, and 

 dissipating the idea that any real sacrilege had oc- 

 curred, they eagerly promised to do so, and told me 

 to make my mind easy, for they would take me under 

 their protection, and see that no harm occurred to me 

 in Girnar. Xor was this a mere empty promise ; for 

 they at once spoke on the subject, in a Very threaten- 

 ing manner, to a party of pilgrims who were return- 

 ing from the Gorukthnath peak, and were going to 

 sleep at the Jain temples. Kext day, also, they acted 

 in a similar manner ; and, strangely enough, whether 

 it was this exploit, or afterwards sleeping at the foot 

 of the Dread Mother, Avhen I returned to Bombay 

 after this excursion, every ashy Bawa I passed seemed 

 to recognise me and almost to look upon me as a 

 brother. After talking for some time with the devo- 

 tees, beside a fire which they had in the centre of 

 their gloomy temple, I took leave of them and de- 



