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vulsive paroxysms, which probably would neither have been so 

 3evere or of such long continuance, had the counteracting power 

 been sooner applied. 



Lullabhy was not only the principal zemindar of Baroche, but 

 one of the most opulent men in Guzerat. It is unnecessary on 

 this occasion to investigate his character as a zemindar, among the 

 Patels and Ryots, or to inquire how he accumulated his wealth. 

 I have stated the conduct of zemindars in my own purgunnas ; 

 and as the .Asiatics view the nefarious transactions in the revenue 

 department differently from a conscientious Englishman, I shall be 

 silent on that subject. As a charitable man, this wealthy Banian 

 appeared very conspicuous ; he daily appropriated a considerable 

 sum of money to alms-giving and relieving persons in distress; no 

 mendicant was dismissed from his gate without a measure of rice, 

 or a mess of vegetable pottage mingled with meal. In time of 

 dearth he distributed grain throughout the villages in the Baroche 

 district ; nor was his bounty confined to those of the Hindoo reli- 

 gion. He repaired public tanks and choultries for travellers, dug 

 several common wells, and constructed a bowree, or large well, in 

 the Baroche suburbs, with steps leading down to the water, all of 

 hewn stone, in a very handsome style of architecture. A marble 

 tablet placed over the fountain of this noble reservoir, contains a 

 short inscription more expressive and beautiful in the Persian lan- 

 guage than can be given in an English translation. 



" The bounties of Lullabhy are ever flowing." 



About this time Lullabhy celebrated a splendid weddino- for 

 his son, a boy under five years of age, and soon after married his 

 only daughter, a year younger than her brother, to a child of a 



