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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...in the province, still the Gautami is larger than all the rest, and like as the Ganges is connected with Mahadeo, so also is this connected with the saint Gautam; there are wonderful and rare stories and fables written about it, and it is worshipped to the present day; it springs from the mountain Sabbha, and begins to get its force near Taranbak; after that, this stream, passing through Ahmadnagar, comes into Birar, and from there flows into the province of Talinga; when Mercury comes into the constellation Leo, hundreds of Hindoos come from a distance, and regarding it as a (means Of) future reward, bathe there. This fair is celebrated in every country; they worship the Tabi and Tapti also, with purity of mind, and regard them as places of worship; but the Puma flows near the village Dewal, although one head of it is about twelve kos above the Tabi, and the other is near the above-mentioned village. To sum up, the length of the province from Putiyala to Bairagurh is two hundred kos, and the breadth of it from Bindra to Hindiya one hundred and " The patwari keeps the accounts of the lands belonging to his village, and of the rent received; in fact, he very often is its accountant-general, and no village is without one. eighty; to the east of it is Bairagurh, to the west Mukhrabad, to the north Hindiya, and to'the south Tilangana; there are ten divisions in it, and dependent to them two hundred districts; the revenue of it is six hundred and seven million, two hundred and seventy thousand dams. CHAPTER XXVI. THE COUNTRY OF KHANDES. THE capital of it is Burhanpur, on the banks of the Tapti; it is: very long and broad, and its population beyond bounds; its inhabitants are generally men of skill, and in its environs are many gardens, ...