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upper extremity on this (wed) fide, we paffed the temple of LMaJurut 

 facred to Siva, and another to Durga. Somewhat further on, on the 

 ©ppofite bank, is fituate the village Mandhal^ and a very fhort way be- 

 low it IrloL Barahdt is no great dillance below this laft, and is lituat- 

 ed on the right or N. W. bank of the riverj on a fmall (Iripe of level 

 landg which commences at the top of the reach, and lays at the foot of 

 ai high hill. It is a wretched place, confiding of five or fix poor hoof- 

 €s furrounded with filth, and nearly buried in a jungle of nettles, 

 thorns, and every rank weed, the produce of a duoghill ; the peo- 

 ple looked as poor and wretched as the place. 



Teadition, for it may be faid to amount to that, fays, that Barakat 

 was a place of note S'nd wealth, containing 50 or 60 fhops in its bazar, 

 (a large number for a hill town,) and fituated in the midd of a rich 

 well cultivated country, abounding i a corn and cattle of all forts: it 

 was alfo a place of much fandity, and this is the only relique of its 

 former felf to be difcerned. Even its temples, however, are in a *mi- 

 ferable Rate of dilapidation, though they ftill abound with brahmins 

 and fuqeers. Dat'hatri is facred to Siv A—xMurli Manur is either the 

 name of a temple or the deity it is facred to ; Parse ram has his Qirine; 

 and Smhi-ca-Mandir (the temple of Suc'hi,) contains the famous Triful 

 or trident. There are alfo many holy pools for ablution, as Surj 

 Cund, Bra-hmd Cuud, Vifnhernatk ; all formerly frequented by pil- 

 grims on their way to Gangotrz, whofe worlhip and adoration there 

 was acceptable, io proportion as they purified tbemfelves by frequent 

 ablations, at the facred flages on their up^vard way. Still they are fre- 

 quented, but by no means as in former days ; indeed, the difficubies 

 thrown in the way of travellers daring the fway of the Gore has, and 

 the deterioration of the roads, have rendered Gangotri a place of far 

 klsrefort than formerly. All thefe temples, bathing places, and reli- 



"^ The EartK^us&s of 1803. — Asistic Rcsjarcbes, vol. xi. pa^c 476. 



