|24 ACCOUNT of a JOURNEY to me Sources of ihs 



Bka'gi'rat'hi. In former days, there was no temple made with hands 

 for her wor Clip ; but within thefe few years, as' has been obferved 

 above, the piety of Ambr Sinh T'happa, chief of the Go/c'Ai conquer- 

 ors, provided a fum of money (from 4 to 500 rupees), for the erection 

 ' of this fmall building. 



The feoiple nov/ built, is iituated about 15 feet above the Rream and 

 precifely on the facred rock on which it is faid Bhagirath ufed to kneel, 

 worftiipping Mahd Deo\ it is a fmali building of a fquarc fhape from 

 16 to 20 feet high, much in the umal form of pagodas, rounding in 

 towards the top ; it is very plaiOj painted whits with Imall dull red 

 mouldings, and furmounted with the ufual round and fcolloped orna- 

 ments of fuch places ; from the eaftern face of the fquare which is 

 turned nearly to the facred fource, there is a fmall projedioa covered 

 with a ftone pent houfe roof, and in the eaftern end of this, is Iituated 

 the entrance to the pagoda j and juft before this entrance there is 

 placed a fmall pagoda fhaped temple to Bhairamji, The whole is 

 placed in a fmall enclofure, furrounded by a wall built of unhewn 

 done and lime, within Vv^hich alfo there is a comfortable but fmall 

 houfe built for the accommodation of the brahmins who come to 

 officiate, Without the enclofure are two or three fheds condruded 

 of wood, called Dharm Sdlas (or charity houfes) built for the ac- 

 , commodatiort of Pilgrims who refort here ; and there are many caves, 

 all around, formed by overhanging flones, which yield a fhekcr to 

 Ihofe who cannot find room in the fheds. 



The fcene in which this holy place is fituated, is worthy of the myf- 

 terious fao£lity attributed to it, and the reverence with which it is re- 

 ,garded. There is not here the confined gloomynefs of Bhairamgh it'll 



toe bare and peaked chffs that life to the Iky, yield not in ruggednefs 



