£02 ANCIENT REMAINS 



of which, after providing for the expenses of the temple and a small portion 

 for the Puraniks and Nagarchis, is divided amongst the ten families into 

 which thej r have branched. 



The ordinary annual ceremonies performed at the temple of Raju Lo- 

 chan, are according to the Pujaris, the Utsava of the Ramnavami which 

 continues nine successive days in Chyte ; the Rat'hotsava, on Akhar Shudh 

 Duj ; (this is performed by the byragis ;) the Janam Ashtami in Bhadon; 

 the Parwa on the day of the Dewali in Kartik ; and the Phul Dal in Phagun. 



On a small rocky island, at the junction of the Pyri and Mahanadi, is a 

 temple of Mahadeo called Kuleswar, said to have been built by the Rani of 

 Jagatpal, and there has been an inscription on the wall of it, though it is 

 now entirely illegible. It is taken care of at present by a few gosains, but 

 as far as I can learn, is not much frequented. 



The following notices of Raju, obtained from the Puranik of the temple 

 of Ramchander, a Canoj brahmin, I mention on his authority, which 1 sus- 

 pect is not good, and they are very trifling at best. 



It is usual for the Puraniks of the temples to be provided with accounts 

 of the sacred places taken or pretended to be taken, from the sacred books. 

 The Puranik of Raju, has no Kshetra Mahatmya or sacred history of Raju, 



but he believes it is to be found at Benares. 



His father, he says, brought from Mandilla, the second Adhyaya of the 

 Kapila Samvitta Pustak, a portion of one of the Upapurans. It con- 

 tains the Chitrotpala Mahatmya, related by Bharadwaj Rishi to his fellow 

 Rishis, in which it is written that in the Awundh Des, the river which runs 

 from Utpaleswar, after its junction with the Pretoddharini, is called Chi- 

 trotpala. Utpaleswar is the present Kuleswar, and the Chitrotpala and 



