OUG 
taining feveral hamlets and a {mall port, defended by a caftle, 
and about 7ooinhabitants ; about 12 miles from the conti- 
nent. N. fat. 48° 29'. W. long. 5°. 
OUG » OOGEIN, or Oojein, as dtr {pelled by 
different ila is a city of India, the capital of the Mah- 
ratta chie t Rao Sindiah, in the opr: of Malwa, 
his hereditary 1 ve ory ee 
far the greateft portion; it is much crow 
with buildings, and is very populous. ‘The houfes are built 
partly of brick, partly of wood. Of the brick houfes 
the frame is firft conftru&ted of wood, and the interftices 
They are covered either with lime e, 
on each fide are o 
mount from the ftreet by five or fix fteps, are moftly built 
of ftone, and is taken up with fhops; the Bday, of brick 
or wood, ferve for the eat ens of the o 
e moft remarkable buildings are four noes: erected 
by private inns: and a great number of Hindoo tem- 
ples. Of the latter the moft confiderable is a little way out 
of the town, a a ene called Unk-pat, held in great venera- 
his aera received 
ere is a ftone tan 
with fteps leading down to the water’s edge, faid oe be of 
great antiquity ; but it has been of late years enclofed with 
a ftone wall, and two temples have been erected within the 
inclofure, Thefe temples are fquare, with pyramidal roofs. 
gate, contains the 
n white marble; 
and that on the left, thofe of Krifhna aed "Radha, the farft 
in black, the fecond in white marble. All thefe figures are 
well executed. An account of thefe mythological per- 
fonages is given in this work under their refpedtive names. 
Sindiah’s palace in the city is an extenfive and fufficiently 
commodious houfe, but without any claim to magnificence ; 
and it is fo clofely furrounded by other buildings, as to 
make but little appearance on the outfide. Near itis a gate, 
the only remains of a fort, faid to have been built foon after 
the overthrow of the ancient city, which affords a good 
{pecimen of the old Hlindoo archite@ure. 
Within the city, and near the peel wall, is a hill of 
a confiderable height, on the top of which is a Hindoo 
{pe r from the top of it comm 
profpeé& on eer fide. To the poe iar he fees, at the 
diftance of four miles, the rude and mafly ftruéture of 
Kalideh, or Calydeh, an ancient palace, built on an ifland in the 
river Sipparah, by a king of the family of Gour. A de- 
{cription of this extraordinary fabric is inferted in the Ori- 
ental Repertory, vol. i. p. 266, from a letter of fir C. W. 
Malet, dated’ ee 13th of April 1785. By an extraa 
a a hifto 
gos (A co). and ig tec 
Thefe Bea fatten, we may judge 
thei eir mame, were erected or confecrated to the iereue “of 
OUG 
Kali, confort . Mahadeva, (fee thofe articles,) to whom 
e temple on the hill within the city appears above to be 
etieied: Thefe are two {quare buildings, each covered 
with a hemifpherical sy es divided below into eight 
apartments, befides the fpace in the centre. The commu- 
nication to the ifland is a = hone bridge ever one of the 
branches into which the river Sipparah is here se pciye 
Below the bridge are feveral apartments conttru 
level with the water; and the rocky bed of the river is ee 
into channels of various aia forms, fuch as circles, 
{pirals, Peale &ec. to pears the dry feafon, the cur- 
rent 1s confined. ‘Turning t the weftward, the f{petator, 
from me top of the hill se pememiicnes. traces the winding 
courfe of the Sipparah through a fertile valley, where fields 
of corn and clumps of fruit trees interfeéting, diverfify the 
profpect, till his oe is arrefte of Beiroun- 
gurh fituated ee on i 
eal . a mile 
ontains an ancient temple, dedicated to the tu- 
telar divinity of the place, whofe name it bears. Beiroun- 
gurh means the fort of Beiroun, or Bheroo, a Mahratta 
pronunciation of Bhairava, the offspring of Mah 
{n the Sanfcrit ranguage Bhairava means tremendous. 
farther up the ftre 
e town, are he 
taining the luxuries of nature with extenfive artificial deco- 
rations. Beyond thefe, at the diftance of half a mile from 
o 
fet) 
for having been the fcene c e a bloody aétion, fought a 
the year 1762, between Sindiah and one of his eerie 
officers, famed Raghu, who marched t 
head of thirty thoufand men to attac k hi s fo 
only five or fix thoufand. 
The ae on this “fide. is bounded by aridge of au 
at the diftance of about three miles. It runs N.N 
.S.W. and is feven miles in length. Thefe hills are cht 
omp ofed of granite, and from them the ftone employe 
Gulag is funplied; but they are covered with cocatle 
mould to a f{ufficient depth to admit of cultivation. To 
t .W. is a wide avenue of trees, which terminates a 
courfe of two miles, at a temple of Ganefa, (a mytholo- 
gical fon of Mahadeva, fee PonLear,) furnamed Chin- 
tamun. It is vifited by numerous proceffions at ftated 
ericds, 
The fouth wall of Oujein is wafhed by the Sipparah, 
which here makes a fudden turning. This extremity of the 
city is called Jeyfing-poora, that 1s, the quarter of Jeyfing, 
and contains an wegibaas built by the enlightened and 
e 
et of sfronomie 
in compliment to the then reigning émper 
Zij Mahommedfhahy. Of thefe five oblervatories, . the 
aftronomical tables, and labours in that f{cience, of this il- 
luftrious Hua the rajah Jeyfing, (or more corre@ly Jaya- 
finha,) a lea and very interefting account is given in 
vol. v. of he “A Bati ic Refearches, by Dr. Hunter, 
from whofe « Narrative of a Journey from Agra to Oujein,”’ 
in vol. vi. of that work, this article is chiefly taken. See 
OBSERVATORY. 
Turning to the left, we are prefented with a different 
profpec 
