154 Account of a Journey from Kurrachee to Hinglaj. [No. 98. 



which had been paid me, and the safety with which I had tra- 

 versed the 'country, I rode in at once to Kurrachee. Most 

 polite answers have since reached me, regretting that my un- 

 expected departure prevented their having the pleasure of 

 seeing me. 



In the hills between Lyaree and Beila " copper" is found 

 in large quantities. A Hindoo now in Kurrachee loaded twenty 

 camels with ore, on his return from Hinglaj, and obtained as 

 many maunds of good metal from it. The whole country 

 is indeed rich in mineral productions, and well worthy the at- 

 tention of an experienced geologist. 

 1*/ March, 1840. 



Note. — The singular and remote place of pilgrimage, visited by Capt. 

 Hart, as described in the above interesting paper, is one of the fifty- 

 one Pitas, or places celebrated as the spots on which the dissevered limbs of 

 Sati or Doorga were scattered. An intelligent native friend (Raee Seeta- 

 nath Bhose Bahadoor) informs me that the word Hinglaj is not met 

 with in any Sanscrit Dictionary of good authority, and it would appear to 

 be a corruption of the word Hingula, the name of the spot on which the 

 crown of the head (Bramarandra) of Doorga was cast. My informant has 

 not been able to find any mention of the geographical position of the 

 place so named in the works to which he has referred, but there can be 

 little doubt as to tbe identity of the spot. He has furnished me with a table 

 of the various Pitas, with the names under which Doorga and Shiva are 

 worshipped at each ; one of these spots being Kalipita, or Kali Ghat near 

 Calcutta. The Churamuni Tantra is, I am told, the authority to be consult- 

 ed on the subject of this particular fable. 



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