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heaven of Mahadeo.) The Mooni departed after making five things : 



" 1st. A tank, called ' Sham Tulao/ in which whoever bathed was 

 certain to have children. 



*' 2nd. The Goor Tulao, by bathing in which the sick were cured. 



"3rd. The Moonsurwur Tulao, by bathing in which a pregnant 

 woman was sure to have a boy. 



"4th. Ram Tulao, by bathing in which the poor become rich. 



" 5th. Two ' Sidh Peets/ the existence of which secures to a city 

 perpetual duration and prosperity. 



"Patlee and Pootur lived very happily their 100 years, and then 

 went to Kylas. They left behind them two sons, Koosum and Puttun, 

 and one daughter Putnee, from whom the modern name of the city 

 is said to be derived." 



Moonshee Kunhya Loll, who translated the above story into Oordoo 

 from the Sunscrit, has attempted to identify the site of the four tanks. 

 He maintains with considerable gravity, that the " Jeeuj Pokur" 

 near the Durgah of Shah Arzan, is the Sham Tulao, and that women 

 still bathe in it with the same object. An excavation in the mohulla 

 of Mogulpoora, called " Nalbund ke Gurha," he holds to be the Goor 

 Tulao. A place called Sheikh Muttee in Chuk Shekarpoor, he consi- 

 ders to be the remains of the Munsurwur Tulao ; and the khye, or ditch 

 of Begumpoor, he boldly affirms to be the Ram Tulao. He has not 

 ventured, however, to discover any traces of the two " Sidh Peets." 

 In the Mudra Rakshasha, a Sanscrit Play supposed to have been 

 written about the eleventh century, the principal scenes of which are 

 laid at Patalipootra, the capital of Chundragupta, a passage occurs, 

 which evidently indicates the vicinity of the city to the river Soane. 

 It will be found in Act IV- page 106, of H. H. Wilson's translation ; 

 Molaya Ketu, who is encamped at a distance of five days' march, thus 

 issues his final orders for the advance of his army to besiege the city 

 and dethrone Chundragupta: — 



Then let us march. Our mighty Elephants 

 Shall drink the Sonc's dark waves, and echo back 

 The roaring of its waters; spread through the groves 

 That shade its bordering fields intenser gloom ; 

 And faster than the undermining torrent, 

 Hurl its high banks into the boiling stream ; 



