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An account of the Maun Bhotvs. 



Dom'oygram near Toka. 



Sookena near Nassik. 



Wakie south east of Ahmednuggur, 



Durriahpoor in Berar, 



Akufpoor in Berar. 

 At the full moon of Chytre (Chytre poornimah Ming 

 in A. D. 1834, on the 23d of April) pilgrimages are made to 

 the shrines of the god Krishen at Rood'hpoor, Punchallesh- 

 wur, Kunnassy in Kandiesh and Dombygram near Teka 

 and at the full moon of Kartick (in A. D. 1834, the 16th 

 November) pilgrimages are made to the shrines at Akut- 

 poor and Wurnere in Berar, at Wakie and Sookena. 



The Maun Bhows it may be said scarcely observe any- 

 fast days, as the followers of Siva and Vishnoo do — but they 

 reckon the month Margysur the most sacred as' Krishen calls 

 it so in the Geeta. The day of Krishen's birth, the Gokull 

 Ashtmy or 8th of Shrawin is kept as a festival. 



In their Mhutts, the Maun Bhows have invariably a chu~ 

 bootra, or raised platform built of brick and lime. About 

 two and a half cubits in breadth, and between three and 

 four cubits in length and about one in height. These plat- 

 forms are said to he erected on particular spots where the 

 deity manifested himself on some occasion during a former 

 age. No places of the kind are consecrated in the present 

 day. The Maun Bhows being strict followers of Krishen, 

 place implicit faith in the account of his life as given in 

 the Bhagwut (generally termed the 18th Pooraii) and reject 

 all the other sacreel shasters of the Hindoos, as they reject 



the worship of all their other gods, >c ^ ^ ^ 



—By Europeans-, Krishen ITaVbecn termed the Apollo of the 

 Hindoos ; and it must be admitted that they greatly resem- 

 ble each other, in many instances. However, he is describ- 

 ed by some of the Hindoo writers as being the most wick- 

 ed, base and debauched of characters. While others re- 

 present him as being all meekness, piety and benevolence. 

 He is known to the Maun Bhows only as possessing the lat- 

 ter virtues ; and the numerous irregularities he is accused of, 

 they explain by saying that these were merely typical of 

 the mutual attraction between the divine goodness and the 



