Vol. II, No. 4.] An account of the Gurpa Hill. 79 
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irpa is the name of a hill near the ee of the same name 
at “ae 25th mile on the new Railway from Katrasgarh to Gaya. 
Directly, it is about 19-20 miles from Bodh Gaya. The village folk 
call the hill Gurpa. They say that the deity of the hill, Gurpa- 
sinmai, suffers nobody to climb on it with shoes, and ‘whoever 
does. so is sure to slip his foothold. The sides of the hill are 
very steep and composed of polished slippery boulders large and 
small, yugta justify the statement. There is only a single path 
leading to the top on the north side of the hill, all other portions 
being ge an The plain surrounding the hill is thickly 
wooded. From the station to the foot of the hill is about one 
mile, and we had to cross the dried-up bed of a hill stream on 
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