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 ■ DTDIAB ASTlQTT.UiY bo» Imthed, ahe performs yvjii lo the i«nvirt Devi in the roomier rebvtixl bolair. The friends find bring in ' ■ • tJ' articles of food are usually browed, and the Stone mller, frith aaflron, place a nuu-k apoq in tho way they daily mark their own forehead*, burn incense and place an oblation ,) before them. Thi* dene, thejf ■'■nnr it, mark it, burn In lwfore it, and also place the nnivedyam befaroifc. The woman tl Otto It, ana 1 it is given u good meal of carry and. rice. Cakes are also placed upon the curry and r«eo t and if there luipppus to bo in the room h wmuuo.ii who li i rto heen Mewed with children she eagerly seizes come of thn cakes, in the hope tluit by Minn- she may ere Jong hare a child. Id. Two hundred years aire a Brilluimn in tin? village ofNntta RaUicBvnra, tit tl. oriafbrtamo to kill a dog. ii, ho tOOk 001 with Uue i biof Brahmana of the rillogci at o best way of nuking expiation, nod roofiivi following advice ;—'* Bnild a temple in ft » m 9 I vn 1 ;t win b i- m this (iii.it «n ad I, place an i situ arc of n dog therein, and oj daily ablu- tion* perform tngjft to the dog, and then yonr sin xv it 1 be pnnlmiiil." Ho complied with thpirndvice tnev'- r, The attention or the pi limina 1 o 1 be neighbouring temple at R ri. in e » v a r a was soonuttructed by tins new building, and on learning t ho cause luppod M in fin- larger edifice, and ihna (Ktsfcoai liic- 009 present day. Sntui H&msfacum, a thu Telugu far a snail, ahellH&b, i:,.i Id . «VC. A largo number of pilgrim-. I rhu urigh- bearing di-trictai resort lo this village tin the LXOOofthn yearly festival. The following d is told ak tho reason of thn building of the temple :— In wars gone by* a certain king who lived in 1 rti) tbnewioftbe Godavart en i led one of bin Icadm- •• i-ninVdnned 1 • g 1 si nd I ur, u uuuiW of noire*, tde- --, and tome!*. As the man was journey- I - in--, In 1 ilept one night in the village u>f H n m fi svura, and dreamed that a snail appeared to hiin and rold huu that hi was going to dwell in the village and or (he yd, and as ho wanted a i- the man matt baild him one. Tha nest morning 1 lold his dream to the chief men of tho _•, and resolved to obey the command. Ac- cordingly lie procartnl a htviv uainber of rtoncs, laid tin 1 foundation two mthoma deep in the Gostonofji, mi)l butt* <'•* >nrino. Imme- dutolj uftL-Mvonlfi u likgn obool I Mgbj coraposiedof'Miuiil-alndli*. up|«'aritl in thu- Ltuiphj BQ bnSU .1 wall all round, about twelva fed hight and oat upon it elephant*, horse*, and cnmeR Having eompleted the whole, he re- I ! to his master, and in atniwer lo tbo inquiries i | iting bJfl purohoces replied that he had done a* bo bad been ordered, but waa □uuble to convey them bom*- and bad left them nil in RumHsvnrri, The king immediate!] Offotbor BOrvantS to inquire into the troth of •tils, and when they returned and confirmed tlw whole, resolved to go and eee for himself. He did so, and on discovering wlwit had really occurred was bo pleaiwd with the rjfms servant that he g,r. i ! !.ige- A Un#a i I I in the village, and olopbants, horaus, and ramnbt are onjrr upon the wall of the court, Thti ia a unuill but very winding channel near Katts Hit«iM<vara, only filled water during the taina or a rise in the Godf ■n " [moS I hero worn Homo itaints ! rrfonaing tb i lingo 1 K warn, near RAj am andri. Tli.-r om.I drink in a remarkanlo Kvury morning they wri 1 i I ayrn- titen of tho village, bent, them d lo^, (selr poba 1.1 r tjn.. trww, no I forihuUh bbcv were filltal with luddy ihcir thirat during the whole hy. They then look a number •it in the naigbbonr- !y ^ Hint crop t thrfrihiMl, n.nd ot One An? a cow bnmght forth h Calf hi i*u tbay worn performing their urns, hut, U 1 belorc I ground, C"! a r n t m a n Hi d a flu w down and bore it away to the wkifc.. Tho cow, in grunt distress u* ttaabbl to follow bur calf, carefully pur- need it* ahadow, and n* cdicr wont, winding and there her milk l ptmndnnd formed a ntrenin, tn { be channel of which the name l,J o « - tanadi waa given. tf"f(u»nMU =■ eowV