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 CHAPTER XLVII.

RADHA KRISHN[)U]—SPORTING IN ASSAM.

1837, August.

Festival of the Birthday of Krishn[)u]—The Rās—The Rākhī—Krishn[)u] or Kaniyā—Sports of the Gopīs—The Elephant—The Horse—Gopal[)u]—Gopī Nat'h[)u]—Radha Krishn[)u]—Krishn[)u] destroying the Serpent—Monotony of Life in India—The Holy Monkey—Sporting in Assam—Buffalo Shooting—Tiger Hunting on Foot—The Baghmars—The Spring-bow—An Earthquake—Risk of Life in the Bhagmar Department—The Burying-Ground at Goalparah 116

CHAPTER XLVIII.

THE FAMINE AT KANAUJ.

1837, August.

Partiality of the Natives for English Guns—Solitary Confinement—The Nawāb Hakīm Menhdī—Bad Omens—A Slight Mistake—Bhūsā—The Padshah Begam and Moona-jah—The Bāiza Bā'ī visits a Steamer—Arrival of Lord Auckland—Visit of the Governor-General and the Hon. the Misses Eden to her Highness the ex-Queen of Gwalior—A March up the Country—The Camp at Fathīpūr—The Line of March—Death of the Nawāb Hakīm Menhdī—The Heir-apparent of Oude gives a Breakfast to the Governor-General—H. R. H. Prince Henry of Orange and the Misses Eden visit Lucnow—Resignation of Sir Charles Metcalfe—Chobīpūr—Thieves—Urowl—The Famine—The Pilgrim buys a Cocky-olli Bird—Merunkee Sarā'e—Ancient Hindū Ruin at Kanauj—Famine in the Bazār—Interment of Mahadēo and Parbatīrvatī in GWL]—The Legend of Kanauj     134

CHAPTER XLIX.

THE HINDU TRIAD.

The 330,000,000 Gods of the Hindū Pantheon—The Janéo—Br[)u]mh[)u]—The Trinity—Bramha—Vishn[)u]—Shiv[)u]—The Ten Avatars—The Fish—The Tortoise—The Boar—The Man-lion—Vamana the Dwarf—Parashu-Rāma—Rāma-Chandra—Bala-Rāma—Booddh[)u]—Kalkī—Krishn[)u]—Radha—Rukmeni—Jaganna'th—Kama-deva—Mahadēo—Pārvatī—G[)a]nésh—Kartikeya—Lachhmī—Saraswatī—Durgā—Satī—The Purānas—The Mundane Egg of the Hindūs—The Vedas—Ascension of the God Buddha     147