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Gondwara, which it supplies with salt from the sea-coast, and brings rice in return; and it is also employed in furnishing Nagpoor with all kinds of merchandise as well as provisions, and possesses 12,000 bullocks.

It will naturally be matter of surprise, that those Bunjaras who have been employed with the different armies should still remain in such a state of apparent poverty, when it must be evident that in some instances their profits have been very great. But our astonishment ceases when we reflect upon their dissolute and wandering habits, their attachment to each other, their almost religious aversion to sleep even for one night in a house, and their habitual drunkenness. I am told that this last propensity is so confirmed in many,-I may say in most of them,—that a father of a family has scarcely prudence sufficient to purchase with his gains, cattle to replace those that he has lost in the course of his campaigns.

I shall wind up this sketch with a word on a race of people called Mooltanies. They originally emigrated from Mooltan in the year 1739, when Nadir Shah invaded India; they then followed Asuf-Jah, the grandfather of the present Nizam, into the Deccan, and settled in the neighbourhood of Ourungabad, where they follow a similar trade to that of the Hindoo Bunjaras. They are however Mahomedans, and have no peculiarities excepting that of leading a wandering life, hutting themselves during the rains, and encamping during the rest of the year. About Ourungabad are about five thousand bullocks, and some few about Hydrabad, where they live principally in the town, and follow the occupation of gold-finding and manufacturing ice for the nobility of the city.

Among the carriers of the Deccan are also the Beoparies, but they are exclusively merchants, and only transport their own goods.

If I have inserted any thing in this account of the Bunjaras which may be afterwards found to be incorrect, I shall upon conviction be always ready to correct any error into which I may have fallen; and allowances will probably be made for my situation, in an obscure part of the peninsula, far removed from literary intercourse with persons whose inclinations, means, and opportunities, give them every inducement and advantage in Oriental researches. I am, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, (Signed) JOHN Briggs.

supposed to be the Son of the Rajah of Jodpoor, adopted by Bheeca.

Ceytsee. Neynsee. Dongsee. Dhegsee. Dhausee.

Cowravut-
Cheenavut

Lalavut

Dewavut
Malawut
Meynsoot.

Bookroot

Sewa.

Roopa.

This GENEALOGICAL TREE is that of the B'hungy branch of B'hoocia Rahtores, and includes the names of all the Families or Pharas of this line. The Jungy branch of B'hoocia Rahtores is that of Poonah, where their chief resides.

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Dhurmsee.

Dewsee.

Patulsee.

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died in 1808.

Somah,

Regent during the minority of his Nephew.

Lechmun.

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Puckanoot

Golavut-
Cheetavut-
Tohavut-

Ceemawut-
Rajavut-
Combavut-
Maharajoot-

Lotavut

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NOTE. Since writing the above I have found the following curious passage in the Life of Mohabut Khan, contained in the Maasserool Omrah Timooreea, a biographical history of the Nobles of the Timoorean family in India; compiled by Eholam Ally Azad from the manuscripts of his friend Sumsam-ood-Dowla Shah-Nowaz Khan:

"In the fifth year after the rebellion of Aazim Khan [which took place A.D. 1627], he (Khan Khanan) was again appointed to the Soobahdary of the Deccan. They say, that during the former thirty or forty years, the Soobahdars of the Deccan had no sooner gained the summit of the Ghats than they were compelled to return without fighting or even skirmishing, for want of supplies. But still no one ever thought of remedying this evil. The very first step which Mohabut Khan (Khan Khanan) took in the Deccan, was to present the Bunjaras of Hindoostan with elephants, horses, and cloths; and he collected (by these conciliatory measures) so many of them that he had one chief Bunjara at Agrah, another in Goojrat, and another above the Ghats, and established the advanced price of 10 seers per rupee (in his camp) to enable them to buy it cheaper." "In the very next year (1633) Mohabut Khan invested Dowlutabad so closely with his army, that Futteh Khan, the son of Mullic Umbur, was compelled to surrender." It will be observed that he had established at Agra and in Goojrat two Bunjara depôts for grain, which were to supply camp depôt above the Ghats: but probably this system appearing to Ourungzeeb, forty or fifty years afterwards, too extensive and complicated, he concentrated all the Bunjaras in the Deccan, and gave them. the standard and patent which are now in the hands of the Bhurteeah chief at Hydrabad. I do not regard the combination and vigour given. to the Bunjara confederacy by the Khan Khanan as indicating that the tribes might not have existed in A.D. 1417, in the Deccan, as mentioned by Ferishta (Scott's Deccan, vol. i. p. 92); but it would appear from the passage quoted, that they first began systematically to accompany armies › so late as 1632.

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XIII.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PARISNATH-GOWRICHA WOR-
SHIPPED IN THE DESERT OF PARKUR*;

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A FEW REMARKS UPON THE PRESENT MODE OF
WORSHIP OF THAT IDOL.

By Lieutenant JAMES MACKMUrdo.

Read on the 28th July 1813.

ABOUT 2,500 years from the first promulgation of the Parisnath worship, Heema Chaarge Juttee a follower of Parsow, much respected among the Shrawuks for his learning, and who had great authority in all matters concerning religion, resided in Puran Puttun†, a celebrated city in the district of Neherwalla, which was at that time governed by a Rajepoot raja named Goonmarpall, who lived about the year of Vikrimajut 1230 (or A.D. 1174). Heema Chaarge succeeded in converting the raja to the Shrawuk religion, and was of that sect who dress in clean clothes and keep their persons purified, and are called Oswall.

After thirty years had elapsed, during the whole of which time Goonmur had acted as the disciple of Heema Chaarge, they on one occasion entered into a conversation upon the manner in which they worshipped their gods; and as they had acquired great celebrity for knowledge and sanctimony, they resolved to establish the worship of twenty-four idols, in the form of the twenty-four owtars of the Shrawuks; and having collected all the images of the country in one spot to perform their prutushta‡, from which they expected to derive additional fame ;—

As the first step towards their object, Heema Chaarge applied himself * This account of the Parisnath Gowdecha or Gowricha is taken from Hindu writings, in particular the Shrawuk Poostuck named Goonmarpall Sid-hant.

+ The ancient capital of Guzerat.

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The ceremony of establishing a new idol for worship, or of removing it to a new temple.

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