38 AN ACCOUNT OF TWO FAKEERS, 



relation extending through fo many years, and com- 

 prehending fuch a number of objects. 



II. Praun Poory is a native of Canouge> of the 

 Khetry or Raujepoot tribe. At nine years of age he 

 fecretly withdrew from his father's houfe, and proceeded 

 to the city of Bethour, on the banks of the Ganges, 

 where he became a Fakeer, about the time (for he 

 cannot otherwife fix the year) of Munsoor Ali 

 Khan's retreat from Dehli to Lucknow, and two or 

 three years before the fack of Mat'hura by Ahmed 

 Shah Abdalli ; which two events are in Scott's 

 " Hiftcry of the Dekkan" related under the years 

 1 75 1-2 and 1756; within which period he came to 

 Allahabad to the great annual meeting of pilgrims, 

 where hearing of the merits attached to what he 

 defcribes as the eighteen different kinds of Tupifya, or 

 modes of devotional difcipline, he made choice of that of 

 Oordbhahuy above noticed ; the nrft operation of whi A 

 he reprefents to be very painful, and to require prepa- 

 ration by a previous courfe of abftinence. 



III. He then fet out to vifit Ramimer, oppofite to 

 Ceylon, taking his route by Kalpi, Oujeine, Burahan- 

 poor, Aurungabad, and Elora; the furprifing excava- 

 tions at which place he notices : and croiling the 

 Godavery at Tounker, he paffed by Poona, Settara, 

 and various other intermediate towns, to Bednore, of 

 which a Ranny, or Princefs, was then the fovercign ; 

 whence he went on to Seringapatam, then in pof- 

 fcffion of its Hindu Princes, whom he names Nund 

 Rauje and Deo Rauje ; leaving which, he defcended 

 through the Tamerchery Pafs into Malabar, and ar- 

 rived at Chochin ; whence he crofTed the Peninfula 

 through* a defart tract of country to Ramifher ; after 

 vifiting which, he returned up the Coromandcl coaft 

 to the temple of JaggernrMth in OrifTa, fpecifving all 



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