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Tr (inflation of the Relation delivered by Pur rum 



SOATUNTRE PuRKASANUND BrEHMCHARY 



of his Travels and Life ; delivered on the l^th 

 of Augujl, 1792. 



1AM a Brahmen of the Tujerveda feci, and of the 

 line of Prdjher. My anceltors are from the Pun- 

 jaub. They had a long time ago come to viflt at Jag- 

 gernauth, and had reached and were abiding at Gope- 

 gavvn, where I was born. When I was only ten years 

 of age, I ufed to give myfelf up to meditation and 

 mortification, lying upon thorns and pebbles ; a mode 

 of life I had continued for ten years, when it w 7 as inter- 

 rupted by my relations, who wanted me to think of 

 marriage ; whereupon, having attained to twenty years 

 of age, I left my home, determined to devote myfelf 

 to travelling. Firft, after coming out of my houfe, I 

 went towards Ootrakhund, by way of Nepaul and 

 Bhote. I went into the country of the Great and Little 

 Lama, where the Teeshoo Lama lives. In this tract 

 is the Maun c Talaee i (i. e. tank or lake,) as far as which 

 is inhabited, but not beyond it -, and the lake called 

 Maun Surwur is feventeen munzels, or days' journey, 

 farther on, in a jungly country, which prevents accefs 

 toit. There are in this quarter the places known un- 

 der the denominations of Muni, MaheJho> Mahadeo, 

 and of 'Teloke, Nauthjee,. and the Debbecs, or cooking 

 places, of Nownauth -, and of the eighty- four Sidhs, or 

 religious perfons, thus diftinguifhed ; all fituated on 

 this fide of the MaunSurwur. Into thefe Debbees, if 

 one throw in either two loaves, or as many as are 

 wanted; one in the name of the Sidh y and another in 

 one's own name ; that in the name of the Sidh remains 

 at the bottom, and that in one's own name rifes up 

 baked. Thefe places I vifited. At the Maun Talaee 

 the boundaries of four countries meet, viz. that of 

 China, of the Lama's country, of the Befeher country, 

 and that of the Cooloo country. 



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