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on the very spot where he had formerly pillaged the 
Brahminical temples ; and he called the place Nassuk, 
to commemorate the name of his late chief and bene- 
factor. For the same purpose, he gave to the cavern- 
ous stronghold, which had been for so long a period 
the favourite head-quarters of his band, the imposing 
name of I) herm- Raj - Lena . 
Moslem influence has now altogether disappeared 
from the city of Nassuk, and it has become the chief 
seat and centre of Brahminical learning and religious 
fraud in the west of India. It is densely populated ; 
nearly forty thousand inhabitants being crowded into 
a space not exceeding four miles in circuit. Of these, 
only one hundredth part are Mussulmans ; and the 
remains of Mussulman buildings are quite as scarce, 
in proportion to the multitude of Hindoo structures. 
The temples are well nigh innumerable, and many of 
them remarkably picturesque ; they appear, indeed, 
to have been erected for the purpose of exemplifying 
the almost infinite diversity of form of which the 
vaulted roof is susceptible. The hill and Budhistical 
excavations of Dherm-Raj-Lena are still to be seen, 
about six miles distant from the city. 
The river Guadavery, which enjoys a fame for 
sanctity scarcely inferior to that of the Ganges, is 
here but a little brook. Opposite the city the bed 
has been built up to a succession of levels, so as to 
form a number of reservoirs, through which the 
stream flows, and falls from one to the other in a 
