Volume 1

Ras Mala, or, Hindoo Annals of the province of Goozerat, in Western India / [Alexander Kinloch Forbes].

  • Alexander Kinloch Forbes
Date:
1856
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Credit: Ras Mala, or, Hindoo Annals of the province of Goozerat, in Western India / [Alexander Kinloch Forbes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the patience even of a votary of the Teerthlinkers, to thread tins labyrinth of ivonders, nor shall we attempt to tell our readers of Kiipurddee Yuksh, of Kundoo Kaja, and his patron Umheeka, of Sinnoodra Veejye the Yaduv, or of the temples which Soondnr, the beautiful King of Kuleean, and his incom- parable consort, raised upon the sacred hill. To some traditions, however, which are of more general interest we may here allude, premising that they are derived from the Muhatma, or sacred chronicle, of the mountain, which purports to have been abridged from a former work on the same subject, by Shree Dhuneshwur Sooree in the renowned city of ^Yullubhee, at the order of “ Soorashtra’s lord, Sheeladitya.” Bhurut Raja, the son of Rishub Dev, ruled in Ayoddhya. He led an army northwards from Shutroonjye, and engaged in battle with a barbarian raja of great power. In the first struggle Bhurut was defeated, in a subsequent one he was suc- cessful. The barbarian sovereign fled on his defeat to the river Indus, “ as a child in distress flies to his mother.” Bhurut was, hoivever, stayed by the rainy season, but at its close his minister Sookhen took a fort north of the Indus, be- tween the sea and the mountains. Somyushd, son of Bahoo- bulee Raja, the younger brother of Bhurut, built the temple of Rishub Dev, and Bhurut himself gave up for the services of the place of pilgrimage the revenues of Soorashtra, which from that day received the title of Dev-desh, or the Holy Land.*' Slmktee Singh, Bhurut’s relative, then presided in Soreth, and with the assistance of the army of that sovereign, led by Sookhen, expelled the demons from Girnar, and founded tem- ples, lofty as Mount Meroo, to Adcenath and Urisht Nemec. The temples on Shutroonjye were afterwards destroyed by bar- barians, and for a long time desolation reigned iii the holy mountain. At the time when Vikruni arose to free the earth from * Tlie word J^ev means generally a dweller in one of tlie upper worldsi For a more detailed explanation, the reader must be referred to the “ Con- clusion.”
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