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raised on a terrace, twenty or thirty yards square, and ■ aboat^ six feet 

 high. The whole height of the building may' be sixty or seventy feet. 

 The entrance is on the western face, which has a portico, where the 

 religious perform their devotions ; and from the roof of which, bells- 

 ©f different sizes are suspended. The presiding deity is seated at the 

 east extremity, under the cupola, opposite to- the door. It is an image 

 about six feet high, cut in black stone, which colour the face retains ; 

 but the lower part is painted red. Opposite to the portico, and fronting, 

 the divinity, is a small cupola, containing the brazen image of a Ganiday. 

 represented aider a human form, with an eagle's beak instead of a- 

 nose; and to^his shoulder;; are attached a pair of spreading wings. One 

 knee is bent on the ground, and his hands are j./ined, in the attitude of 

 supplication or prayer. Under the terrace is a temple sacred to Ma- 



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The bathing place is at the point of jun(5lion; and", as the water flows 

 with great rapidity, three Ciindas or basons have been cut in the rock, 

 Mow the surface, to prevent the bathers being carried away by the 

 stream. The town contains two hundred, or two hundred and fifty 

 houses;, and is inhabited by Brdhmens of different sects; but principally 

 those from Pma and the Dekhin. Twenty-five villages were conferred > 

 in Jdgir by the Raja of Srznagur, and since continued' by the Gurc'hdlf 

 government, for the support of this establishment ; but the annual produce 

 of them, not exceeding one thousand or one thousand and two hundred 

 rupees, is very insufficient for the maintenance of the numerous officiating, 

 priests, who are obliged to have recourse to more worldly expedients to 

 gain a subsistence. Exclusive of the donations and fees which they re- 

 ceive from the pilgrims, for the privilege of bathing,, many of them keep- 



