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LXXI. 



Small Hindoo Dewal on the bank of the Nerbudda. 



These little temples, generally shaded by a banian-tree, are built near a 

 Hindoo village, for the convenience of the peasants; and also for the com- 

 fort of the boatmen navigating the j-iver; who on festivals, and stated cere- 

 monies, frequently land, and perform their devotions to the deity therein 

 worshipped. The Raje-pipley hills form the distant prospect. 



LXXII. 



A Banian Tree, consecrated for Worship in a Guzerat Village. 



This tree was sketched, not only for its perfect form, and the ramifica- 

 tions and trunks surrounding the parent stems, (from which they did not 

 then extend to a great distance,) but because it gave an exact representa- 

 tion of a village deity often mentioned, in those small hamlets where no 

 building is appropriated to Hindoo worship. To this stone, sometimes rude 

 and shapeless, and sometimes sculptured into the form of a deity, the pea- 

 sant repairs to perform his daily devotions. 



LXXIII. 



Scenery among the Sacred Hindoo Groves at Chandode. 



This view contains some of the smaller dewals, or temples, under the 

 Ficus Indica and groves of Mango and Pcpal trees, on the bauks of the river 

 Nerbudda, where the brahmins pass their lives in voluptuous indolence, 

 with the female choristers, and dancing girls. Sacred bulls stray unmo- 

 lested, and monkeys are cherished, while the poor out-cast Chandalah is not 

 permitted to enter, nor even to breathe the surrounding atmosphere. 



