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 THE ECBIA2? ANTIQUARY. [Maw-nv I87&. take thein oil" without hurting my own; but it u said to cunluin two Persian olid two Arabia inscriptions, of which I append copies to tliia paper. There in a good tank beside the tomb, ■lid a Fthort way aonth of it a Email bat deep and good well, with a JVmtnn and a Mar,itlit in- acripliou, of which iil«*o I append copies, a pages being unobtainable either litre or in the tomb. I found no Hindu buildings ur remains of any hnporta Hhirandl, nor any at alt' ait the next camps to fchfl W, B. at l-'urghe on the Agra, rood, and to tin? N. at NanxUbae. But to the w 1-3.1 of the hitter is the fort of G linu* t a r A, which may, for aught 1 know, con- tain, something to repay an obviously very toil- some MOC i : ', tlif village of W a 4 o w 1 1, half a mile Jf.E. of Kanditn^ I measured a pimpa I- tree (fi'cw# rditjivsa) -i6 feet inches in girth. This ia the second largest tno ,, i I have measured in Western India, the [orgeat [0811 Ouobub (JJaiwwna di'jiliilOi MarAtnl Qotakh Chinch) at Junnnr, with I . rnfaranoo of 47 feet, and a hollow in igh to fltablo a pony in. The third is a common tamarind (Tamtiritulu$ Imh'ca) mea- suring 40, which stands near n Tillage on the right bank of the Arunavalt rivw, ohnnt n mffla above the town of Sirpur, in Khandesh. Tho piwpdl, however, is beyond 004 n the hand- somest tree of t ho three, and ui justly helJ ia high veneration by the inhabitant* of the vil- lage, which, uh It shows no sign of mwmn or decay, it may continue to overshadow for many generation* to come. Four miles north of Nanditne is ihn town of ) n g h A d, famous for tho defeat of the Mur'alnis by Colonel Hartley.* From Dnghari, prat rl,» battlefield and through this pa*» in roar of it, it ia fonr to Ate I oil, on tho Tan a a river, where rnriunonoea tho group or hut springs known generally aa thoae of Wu&rnbai, cursorily alluded to by Colonel 'Syktio uder il tho hod of the Tnn&i rarer, every horn and there along ftboot four miles of it* course, which lii'tv lioa over a common reddish (rap pierced bv occasional dykes uf intensely hard and homo- gOQOOUM black basalt, I had no thvrmm but, with tho aid of one improvised of an egg Bjwinrfciinecl that none of the springs approach thorn native* jump at once, though there are onu or two which it is thought prudent to approach by liral tutoring one of lower temper- ature. Ttio water is tasteless ; and the strong smell of rotten eggB and gun-washings, which pervades the neighbourhood of the springs, arms, I think, less from it than from the bubbles of gaa which risn through it, being certain I j strongest when and where these ore most nu- merous. Thu natives believe much in the power h ' Hr. purification from deadly run and OBtaneotlfl diseases, Those at A k I o I i aro clustered round a temple of-MoMdovu called 11 a ui e 8 w u r (from which name one might per- haps infer that it was originally a place of Vaish- nava, and not of daira, worship). The temple itself is not very remarkable or ancient. It has two or three good cisterns filled by the hot springs; and about a hundred yards lower down are half a dnxan others in tho bank and bed of the river. A little way north- cast of the temple, in a pretty &pot on the river-bank, is I lesa tomb of a European officer, of whom no one knows anything hot thl iU i a Captain Yrita SiHinh (query Prosi ur Ferrers), who cauiu herewith his wife and children abouf fifty Years ago to have the benefit of the hot waters, and died here. Then the Madam Sflheh ohoae this spot, and buried him in it and went away." About half a. milo down the river from Humes- war, in the village of WadowlJ, ore the p pruigs of Wn i r e a w a r or W a«r I b ii i pro- per, which are in the bed of IhcTaniatand exactly siinikr to the last-mentioned or lower RAmeswar group. On tho aide of a spur of the Ghautarilt range stands tho temple of W a z r a b il i herself ; "Our Lmly of tho toJehion" the BnVhmans here say her name means* — interpreting waeui to mean **a very aharp shnrt sword," Uiuugh I derive it from , a thunder!*-: Thil lady h* a Yyginl who became incarnato in Una neigh horn hood to uWroy Daityma, and formerly resided at G unj, acveu mi north, but broke up hrmye there tiii.br 0W«On> BlMcnlun-emfW to be mentionod. There ia very to be learnt ubout her fiom the people aronnd, ami though there is a Mdhdiwyn ^ chronicle recording fi0mt) particulani alsjut her ami the river W a i t u ra a, it i^ DOi k. pi hare. boiling-^iet in r.m^ n u U re;and_jnt 1 moat of but by her npaihyi or ber.ditury prie^ who t </«J. X^ajMrs */ Walm Indkt, p. !(*,
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