﻿104 NARRATIVE OF A ROUTE 



words are perfe6t, and thy heart is pure : Be thou 

 chief of Munis. By reading thi<, a man's life will be 

 lengthened, his happinefs and fame encreafed, and his 

 progeny multiplied." 



March i6th. This morning I made an excurfion 

 to fee the tank and buildings on the weft iide of RiU- 

 tunpour. The firft objects that attracted my attention 

 Avere two Hindoo temples on a hill : one had been 

 erected by Beembajee in honour of Letch mun Ram; 

 and the other I found had been built in honour of 

 Beemajee, whofe heroic exploits had railed him in 

 the opinion of the Mahrattas to the honour of a 

 Dewiah ; at whofe fhvine, offerings, and facrifices, 

 are accordingly made at ftated periods. The guide 

 then led me over fome high banks, round the ealt and 

 north fides of the fort. From the latter a gate projects 

 into a tank upon a high mound. Thefe two faces are 

 furrounded by two large tanks; but the rampart is 

 entirely fallen down, and in the place where it formerly 

 flood, had been erected fome poor huts. In the north 

 end of the fort is lituated a fmall brick Hindoojlanne.e 

 houfe; in which An'undybye, and another i?<2/z«j' of 

 the late Beembajee, refided. He left three waves at 

 Jiis death ; one of whom only had burned herfelf with 

 his remains; and the other two were then fupported on 

 a Jaghtir^ granted to them' by the Bcrar Rajah. 



1 PROCEEDED in 3 fouth-weft direction, until I 

 came to a building facred to Bhyroe; and found in 

 it an enormous Idol, made of blue granite, about 

 nine feet in height, and which was rubbbed over with 

 red paint, and adorned with Piowers. I was next 

 directed to a little hill, called Letchmy Tackrj, upon 

 which is gn image and temple dedicated to Bhavani ; 

 whofe prote6tion, they faid, had ever prevented the 

 Mujfulmen from difturbing the Hindoos in their religi- 

 ous rites at RiUtunpour, From this hill, looking north, 



I had 



