s on
well; rain descends in good season, the harvests are abundant, and
the cattle thrive. When Brahma reigns, there is little falling off in
these matters; but during the twenty years that Siva reigns, nothing
goes on well--we are all at cross purposes, our crops fail, our
cattle get the murrain, and mankind suffer from epidemic diseases.'
The Raja was a follower of Vishnu, as may be guessed.

Notes:

1. Tavernier notes that Ganges water is often given at weddings,
'each guest receiving a cup or two, according to the liberality of
the host'. 'There is sometimes', he says, '2,000 or 3,000 rupees'
worth of it consumed at a wedding.' (Tavernier, _Travels_, ed. Ball,
vol. ii, pp. 231, 254.)

2. _Ante_, Chapter 5, [3].

3. Jagannath (corruptly Juggernaut, &c.), or Puri, on the coast of
Orissa, probably is the most venerated shrine in India. The principal
deity there worshipped is a form of Vishnu.

4. Water may not be offered to Jagannath, but the facts stated in
this chapter show that it is offered in other temples of Vishnu.

5. Bindachal is in the Mirzapur district of the United Provinces.
Baijnath is in the Santal Parganas District of the Bhagalpur Division
in the province of Bihar and Orissa. The group of temples at Deogarh
dedicated to Siva is visited by pilgrims from all parts of India. The
principal temple is called Baijnath or Baidyanath. Deogarh is a small
town in the Santal Parganas (_I.G._, 1908, s.v. Deogarh; _A.S.R._,
vol. viii (1878), pp. 137-45, Pl. ix, x; vol. xix (1885), pp. 29-35
(crude notes), Pl. x, xi).

6. Pandit Saligram, who was Postmaster-General of the North-Western
Provinces some years ago, became one of these wandering friars, and
other similar cases are recorded.

7. Seet Buldee Ramesur in original edition. The temple alluded to is
that called Ramesvaram (Ramisseram) in the small island of Pamban at
the entrance of Palk's Passage in the Straits of Manaar, which is
distinguished by its magnificent colonnade and corridors. (Fergusson,
_Hist. Ind. and Eastern Arch._, vol. i, pp. 380-3, ed. 1910.) The
island forms part of the so-called Adam's Bridge, a reef of
comparatively recent formation, which almost joins Ceylon with the
mainland. A railway now runs along the 'bridge', and the pilgrims
have an easy task.

The Kedarnath temple is in the Himalayan District of Garhwal (United
Provinces), at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet.

8. The author's other works show that the Thugs freque