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choice. Thefe Vartias have above ten thoufand Monafteries in the Indies -, and 
fome of them are more Auftere than others : Nay their are fome who think 
it enough to worftiip God in Spirit^ and thefe have no Idols, and will have 
Gentile Nrntf. no Pagod near them. There are alfo Religious Nuns in fome places^ whb 
live very exempiarily. 
CHAP. XXXVII. 
Of the Provinces of Ayoiid, or Haoud $ 
Varâd Varal. 
The Prôvince 
of Ayoud, 
The Province 
of Varai. 
The yearly Re- 
venue of 
Jyoud. and 
Varal, 
RajM not Sub- 
jcôed. 
The Pagod of 
NMgarcut. 
The Idol Mat- 
ta. 
The Pagod of 
Calamac. 
T He two Provinces of Ayoudznd Varaly are fo little frequented by the 
Moguls^ that they (from whom I asked an account of them,) could give 
mc none, though they were pretty well acquainted with the relt of Mogul- 
iftan-y and tliexefore I cannot fay much of them in particular. The Pro- 
vince of Ayoud y (as far as I could learn,) contains the moft Northern 
Countries that belong to the Mogul , as Caucares , Bankkh , Nagarcut , 
Sih, and others : And that of Faral confifts of thofe which are moft 
North-Eaft ward, to wit, Gor, Fitany Canduana^ and fome others. 
Thefe two Provinces being every where almoft watered with the Rivers 
which run into the Ganges^ are very fertile-, notwithftanding the Moun- 
tains that are in them, which makes them exceeding Rich. The Pro- 
vince of Ayoud yields the Great Mogul sho^t ten Millions, and that of Varaî^ 
more than fevenand twenty a year. The great gains that thefe two Pro- 
vinces , and that which is next them, make from the Strangers of the • 
North and Eaft, are the caufe of fuch confiderable Revenues as the Mogul 
draws out of them, and they are fo much the greater, that (thefe Coun- 
tries being remote from the Sea,) no Europeans {hare with them therein. 
There are many Rajas in both, who(for the moft)part,own not the Autho- 
rity of the Great Mogul. There are two Pagods of great reputation in Ayoud^ 
the one at Nagarcut^ and the other at Calamac ^ but that of Nagarcut i? 
far more famous than the other, becaufe of the Idol Matta^ to which 
it is Dedicated ; and they fay that there are fome Gentiles, that come 
not out of that Pagod without Sacrificing jpart of their Body. The 
Devotion which the Gentiles make fliew of at the Pagod of Calamac^ 
W)ceeds from this, that they look upon it as a great Miracle, that the 
ater of the Town which is venr cold, fprings out of a Rock , that 
continually belches out Flames. That Rock of Calamac^ is of the Moun- 
tain of Balaguate^ and the Bramens (who Govern the Pagod,) make great 
profit of it. 
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