1849.] 



Circar of Warimgul. 



This fair lasts five or six days and is held in January. Cloths, co- 

 coanuts, sugar, metals, silk and tusser are brought to this fair. 



2nd. At Chelwaee. There is a fair in the cold season where 

 there is a famous sakti of the Coorwars. 



Sowdalurama. This fair is chiefly for jungle produce. There is 

 a black stone to which the richer votaries of the goddess tie a young 

 bull which becomes the property of the Zemindar. 



At Ramapatalao. There is a fair for jungle produce in the be- 

 ginning of the hot weather at Catacondah for cloths, &c. about 

 Christmas; and at Chundragiri in the hot season, which being a holy 

 place no kuUals nor butchers are permitted to attend. There is also 

 a fair for tusser cloths, &c. at Yerraguttoo near Hoosainpurty at the 

 Hooley ; and at Meereecondah in the hot weather a fair for cloths, 

 groceries and drugs. 



At Molunna's fair in good years so much as rupees 500 are raised 

 from the rents of booths and from the Dhungeers, three-fourths of 

 which goes to government, and one-fourth to the zemindar. At 

 Meereecondah the small sum raised is equally divided between the 

 Zemindar and village officers. 



At the other fairs 2 pice a shop is levied for tlie zemindar. One 

 for the Putwarree, one for the havildar, dorwa, or patell. The Yell- 

 war gets a dhumree on each shop and the other village officers 

 small presents. 



In my report I have omitted to state that a tappal and banghy 

 dak from Nakricul to the cantonment of Warungul has been estab- 

 lished since March last. 



Annexed are drawings'^ of arms and musical instruments. A spe- 

 cimen of native drawing and painting, the figure of the Dhungeers* 

 god Molunna, accompanies the report. 



In the possession of the family of the Surdesh- 

 pundyas there is a chronicle of the kings of Wa- 

 rungul. Like all such Indian histories it bears the stamp of being a 

 compilation from popular traditions at a period not very remote. The 

 miracles it gravely records, the length of reigns assigned to each 

 king, deprive it of every claim to being esteemed authentic history, 

 but as a specimen of brahmin pretence and brahmin lying, minister- 



* The drawings here referred to, as well as at pages 223, 224 and 270 have not yet 

 been received, but we hope to present them to our readers in a future number, as 

 soon as the promised copies arrive. — Eds. 



