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Rh burning pains. It is said, that by the virtue of this oil, the daughter of Eleswara attained to such Wonderful capacity, that she shortly became a proficient in all the arts and sciences, and able to discourse on the most abstruse point in natural philosophy. She likewise became a poetess, and wrote an-epic poem, which she entitled Nachi Nataka, in which she recorded in elegant Shanscrit verse, all the events of her own life from her birth till her widowhood. She afterwards obtained the consent of her father to go on a pilgrimage to all the holy places in the peninsula, and it is said, that in the course of her tour, she overcame in controversy many learned pundits at various places, confuting every one, who came in opposition to her. After receiving rewards form the kings of Delhi and of Joyapore, she returned home, much admired for her talents and ready wit.

Eleswara Upadhy had another daughter, in whom he was more unfortunate, for it appears, that through some treachery she bad been married to a person of an inferior cast, by whom she had issue.