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farther without his friendly Brahmin. As soon as his arrival was 
notified to the Pingli, they set but ^to visit him, attended by the 
magistrates and other Brahmins. Poor Mooraba, extremely alarm- 
ed after the ill usage he had already received, retreated as they 
advanced. They however at length induced him to stop, by as- 
surances that they only came to pay their respects to him. They 
then told him the dream they had had, and requested he would 
stay at Moraishwer. This he positively refused. They then de- 
manded where he lived. He said they might send a man with him 
who would see. This they did, but the man could only keep up 
with him for tencoss. He then lost him, and returned to the Pingli. 
Mooraba himself returned in the morning to his devotions. The 
Pingli again sent a person with him, who again returned, having got 
only ten coss, as before. 
This continued for some time ; at length Gunputty appeared in 
a dream to Mooraba, still preserving the form of the friendly 
Brahmin, and told him that he had too much trouble to go every 
day to Moraishwer to perform his devotions ; that, the next morning 
he, Gunputty, would visit him at his own habitation, and take up his 
abode with him. The morning ablutions of Mooraba were per- 
formed up to his middle in the river : he, as usual, dipped his hands, 
joined together, and his head at the same time, under the water ; 
when he raised them up again, he was equally surprised and 
delighted, to discover in his hands the image of Gunputty, as 
worshipped at Moraishwer. On recognising this, he took it home, 
smeared it with red paint, prepared a shrine for it, and ever after- 
wards performed his pooja to it, without thinking it necessary to 
visit Moraishwer. The fame of the Deity's taking up his residence 
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