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received any particular name, he entreated it might be called 

 after his own, Dubhowey, which was immediately granted, and with 

 a slight alteration is the name it still retains. 



There is a story something similar to this, in the Ayeen Akbery. 

 respecting Bunsrajh, the founder of the Guzerat monarchy, in the 

 one hundred and fifty-fourth year of the hejira ; it mentions Putton 

 as having been built by that prince, whose mother was delivered 

 of him in the wilds of Guzerat, where a hermit took charge 

 of him. 



Dhuboy for a long time was inhabited only by Hindoos, no 

 Mussulman being permitted to reside within the walls, nor under 

 any pretence to bathe or wash in the tank; but a young Maho- 

 medan stranger, named Sciad Ballah, on a pilgrimage with his 

 mother Mamah-Doocre, in their way to Mecca, alighted at a cara- 

 vansary, without the gates of Dhuboy; and Sciad Ballah, having 

 heard much of its magnificence, walked in to gratify his curiosity. 

 After viewing the curious gates and temples on the borders of the 

 tank, and ignorant of any prohibition to the contrary, he rashly 

 ventured to bathe in the sacred lake: the brahmins, deeming the 

 water polluted, prevailed on the rajah to punish the delinquent 

 by cutting off his hands, to deter others from following his ex- 

 ample: he was then turned out of the city with disgrace; and 

 thus covered with shame, and weak with the loss of blood, he 

 could but just reach his mother at the caravansary, and there 

 expired. 



These strangers were Mahomedans of distinction, then on their 

 way to Surat to embark for the Red Sea, from the interior parts 

 of Hindostan. Mahmah-Doocre, after the first paroxysm of grief, 



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