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 itm hislori o INDIA eentro. "This is in itmelt s minor labyrinth, mad of some intriemy" we re, "yet it soon yields to a tudy of town and plan together. we have the eharmterist is so eommon throughout South as the Agraharam type of India, Street. First, and still eentral, Brahmin 'Street which best. developed in the Here, as whltrever possible, it runs North and South, with its present temples st one end, and what remains of the erbar. A street runs on each s little distanee behind its homes, its Bathg (hsts st side parcel to this, for humbler eastes and seeular uses. Here in faet is "the Three Streets Plan" so familiar to city students in the West, surviving plainly, for insrenee, in my own University City and 'Eeolosiastimd Capit of lit. Andrews, Abbey 0ity of the old Edinburgh: short a between these geographical extremes of or again of tim eorrosponding Csnon-ilait, the Westminster of type deeiphsrable in many cities, that The old main street now bears the 81tonigall, from the 8hani Temple st 8turnino deity seems to indicate orieinal Temple, or st may rto not the India and 8eotlmad. distinctive name of its head: but it8 this was not tha main one." It is hardly possible to summarise the historical survey; and we think it is o! sufiieisnt general interest to warrant some further extensive quotations. "Looking now st th/s whole georsphieal situation, we sos how admirable is the location it afforded for th/s peaceful little rsli8ious eontrs. For s cult so fundamentally riverins and pastoral as Brahminism no better situation eould be desired; in whioh the bathing ritual of sunrise and sunset eould be followed st their best, in which the onomie need of pasture was assured by permanent rivers, mad with these protecting the little rolisious town, which was thus in isolation from the great stream of secular affa/rs, and yet eonvon/ently near Ilia great road between Bombay sad Agra.  "Bul how did lhis liifis rsligious esnlrs arise ? Prssum- ably, besidss ils nslursl sdvsnlsgss, ss s slags, sad sn 'sllraefie rssfing-poinl, upon lhs routs of yogis snd pilgrims belween lhs holy oily of U]]sin and lbs doubly ssorsd rivsr Nsrbudds. "Ths sarly unimporlsnos of lndors in seoulsr hislory-- s poinl sl firsl of psrplsxily in viaw of iSs military ira-