﻿HEREDITARY LIVING DEITY. 387 



(do not, beyond the 9^eignmg family, seem much 

 distinguished. 



It might not be very interesting, if practicable, 

 to trace minutely the genealogy of this family to its 

 hoi}' root, and I shall go no farther in this retrospect 

 than to the immediate ancestors of the present Deo. 

 He, DuRNEE DurDeo, called also Durnee Dur 

 Bawa, had four sons (no daughters) by his only 

 wife Aakah, who died in 1780, aged 65 — about 

 t-cn years after her husband, who Hved to be nearly 

 four score. 



1. Gabajfe Deo, born about 1740. 



2. GunnabaDeo, born about 17^0, died 1795, 



3. Mooraba Deo, born about l755, now living 

 at Ranjangozv, of which temple he is superior. 



4. Bappajee Deo, born about 17t)0, now Hving 

 at Ojoor, where he is head Brakmifi. 



Gabajee Deo married 1. Abba^ee, who, in 

 1775, bore him, when she was twenty years old, 

 his only son Bab a Deo, and died without further 

 issue, at the age of '26. 



2. Abbaee now livinj?, about 3>5 years of ao-e, 

 who has proved barren. Baba, or Bawa Deo, 

 married 1. Neeroba^ee, born about 1780, still liv- 

 ing, by whom he has an cnly daughter born in 97, 

 2d. wife, name not known, born about 1784, this 

 ends the eldest branch of the family. 



GuNNABA Deo, the second son, had two sons, 

 who are living, as is their mother, at Seedatak, 

 names not known. 



jMooraba Deo, the thiird son, had only one 

 wife, and by her one son, whose name does not; 

 occur. That son was eighteen years old in 1798. in 

 which year he bruised himself to death on the pidestal 

 of his god at Ranjangozv, in consequence cf some 

 indignities offered him, or the temple, by a party 

 of Sexdea's soldiery: his widow is hving childless, 

 although the marriao-e was consummated at Ran- 

 jangow : this ends the third brauch, 



C c 2 Bappajee 



