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table land, in the middle af which is a tomb, called Fach-hhai, by which, 

 name the pass is also designated. It is a Chabutra^ about six feet square, 

 built of large pieces of slate, with five stones, placed perpendicularly 

 in the centre, to represent the five brothers ; the tomb stands here a 

 monument of the effe6^s of usurpation and of female revenge. The 

 persons whose ashes it contains, were the relations of Upendra Sahi, 

 one of the former Rajas of Srinagar, at whose d^ath the government 

 devolved to his nephew, the infant son of Dulebh Sahf. These brothers, 

 who were next of kin, usurped the management of the state, and are 

 said to have committed the most horrid acts of cruelty, until the Rdm\ 

 the mother of the child, formed a plot to way-lay them at this pass; 

 and thus relieving the country from their tyrannic sway, she reinstated 

 the young Raja, Pretab Sahi, and herself assumed the regencya 



21 St. Marched to Mathiirdpuri, a small village ^ inhabited by FaMrs 

 of the Bairdgi sect. Therm 83**. The road consisted of ascents and de- 

 scents. We first passed through a forest, inhabited hy the species of ba- 

 boons, called in Hindustan, Langur, and here Ghuni, On this day's march 

 we saw the confluence of the Aiacanandd with the Call Ganga, a large 

 stream which rises in the mountains of Cedar, and is m the Sdstra denomi- 

 nated Manddcim. Its junction with the Aiacanandd^ called Rtidrapraydga, 

 is one of the five principal Praydgas mentioned m the sacred books of the 

 Hindus. The pilgrims, who visit the temple of Ciddr-J^dth, generally pur- 

 sue the road on the W. hdink oi the Aiacanandd vivqt, znd follow the 

 track of the Manddcini from the point of junction. At an inconsiderable 

 elevation from the water, is a small Mat'h, or temple; and a few houses, 

 inhabited by the Brdhmens, Farther on, is a large fragment of rocks, 

 called Bhrn-ca-Chd'a. It is ibout thirty feet high/and fifteen feet in dia- 



