Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(August, 1873.
3. Let him not engage in any law-pursuit for which he might be censured by the wise! May every being experience happiness, peace, and men. tal enjoyment !
4-5. Whatever sentient being may exist, erratic or stationary, or of whatever kind, long, or tall, or middle-sized, or short, or stout, seen or un. seen, near or remote, born or otherwise existing. may every being be happy!
6. In whatever place they may be, let no one deceive or dishonour another! Let there be no de- sire, from wrath or malice, to injure each other!
7. As a mother protects with her life the child
of her bosom, so let immeasurable benevolence prevail among all beings.
8. Let unbounded kindness and benevolence prevail throughout the universe, above, below, around, without partiality, anger, or enmity!
9, Let these dispositions be established in all who are awake, whether standing, walking, sitting, or reclining: this place is thus constituted a holy residence.
10. If the virtuous man who has not attained to perfection, yet perceives it, subdues his desire for sensual objects, certainly he shall not again be a lier in the womb.
NOTES ON THE BHONDAS OF JAYPUR.
BY J. A. MAY, TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY. The most remarkable bill on the outfall of the fully cooi and pleasant. A little way down the Jaypur plateau to the south-west (Lat. 18° 15' hill, in one of the streams above alluded to, is a to 18. 30, and E. Long. 82° 15' to 82° 30') is Che spring of good water, which I believe is perennial, rubiding hill-station. This will is about a square as is the case with all streams on the highlands. mile in extent, having two principal undulations, The Boro Kolab or Machkund runs diagonally on which the survey stations are, and between across the ground in a south-westerly direction them is a curious-looking depression, suggesting parallel to the ranges of hills on either side in a the idea of an extinct crater, about 150 yards in deep narrow valley. It is fordable near the villages length, being nearly in form of a square, with Sindgar, Bojugura, and Amliwara during the dry banks fifteen feet or thereabouts in height, in season, but further down it is very deep, and alligawhich, during the rains, water is retained to a tors are said to be plentiful. In these parts the depth of from four to five feet. There are two only means for crossing the river are small canoes outlets to this little basin opposite to each other, scooped out of solid logs of sál (Shorea robusta). forming rather considerable streams, which meet about 15 to 20 feet long and 2 deep; these are at about four miles distant in the valley below. best unsafe, but by lashing two together, a boat,
A legend is current among the natives as to the reliable and capable of bearing a pretty heavy origin of this hollow, and is as follows:-At a load, is constructed, but the scarcity of canoes time, as is generally the case with such stories, makes it a matter of the utmost difficulty to cross beyond the memory of man, one of their gods, & camp. It is remarkable that this river seems named Bhima, with his sister, occupied this hill to separate the Telugu from the Uriya speaking and jointly cultivated it; and as it was usual for people, the former occupying the country on its them to labour apart in a state of nudity, Bhima, to left bank. Another peculiarity I noticed was that prevent unseemly rencounters, had recourse to a on its right bank the magnetic needle was deflectstring of bells which he wore round his waist, and ed to a great extent and unequally by the ironserved to make known his approach to his sister, stone so plentiful in the little hills about, and who immediately covered herself in order to re- caused me great annoyance and extra labour while ceive him. But on one occasion she accidentally surveying, as I could not depend on a station appeared before him naked, a circumstance which unless made by reference to three or four points. 80 shocked their modesty that they fled precipi On the opposite bank, however, the needle seldom tately from each other in opposite directions; thus or never varied. the basin is said to have been formed by rice cul- The general aspect of the country is hilly, tivation, and the two outlets are the respective | rugged, and forest-clad, and, excepting on the paths taken by this highly modest couple. The highlands, cultivation of any kind is rarely to be presence of paddy,' unaccountable to the vil- seen. The villages in the valley are very few, lagers, has no doubt led them to the framing of this scattered and small, seldom consisting of more legend. I was encamped on Cherubiding for a than two or three huts, and inhabited by wretched day in the month of March, and found it delight- specimens of humanity, who are for the most part
That is, he shall not be born again, but upon death migrate to the highest of the Brahma worlds, and after rosiding there the necessary táme cense to exist.