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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY,
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MISCELLANEA. HINDUISM IN THE HIMALAYAS.
Gandsbå to cut down the bush and to dig BY H. A. ROSE.
beneath it. When he had dug to a depth of four or five oubits he discovered a flat-stone
(pindi) against which the spade, with which Tho Shrine of Balak Rupi, near Bujanpur in he was digging, struck (the mark caused by Kangra.
the stroke is still visible) and blood began to ooze My informants are: -(1) Chuhra, Brihman from it till the whole pit was filled with blood. Chels (or disciple), (2) Lalman Brahman, (3) Nim
After a short time the blood stopped and milk Náth Jogi, (4) BASt Jogi, (5) Darshnun Jõgi, and
began to flow out of it. Next oame a stream (6) Bis&khu Jogi, jogts of Balak Rapt.
of saffron which was followed by a flame (jót)
of incense (dhip), and finally by a current of One Ganesha Brahmaņ, a paróhit of the Jaswal
water. BÅLÅ LAI Pðri said that all these were Rajka, gave up his office and took up his ubode in
signs of BAL& Balak Rúpi. He then took the Dhar Balak Rapi, whence he repaired to Har,
idol (pind() to the Néogal Nadi in order to bathe where the temple of Bab& Balak Rapf now stands.
it, wbereupon milk again began to issue from it. His grandson, Joga, when he was about 10 or 12
The idol was then taken back to its former place. years old, one day went to his fields with a plough ou his shoulder. In the jungle he met a young
While on the way near Bhöchar Kund (a tank yosdia, who asked him if he would rerve him. near the temple on the roadside) the idol by Jóga consented, whereupon the gordiis instructed itself moved from the palanquin, in which it was him not to tell anybody what had passed between being carried, and went into the tank. B&b& them."
Lal Part and Kanthar Náth recovered it and Leaving the goadfi, Jóga went to the fields,
brought it back to the place where it had first
appeared. During the night it was revealed to where other men were working, and on his arrival
BABA LAI Part in a vision that Guggå's temple there, began to dance involuntarily saying that
should be demolished and its remains cast into he did not know where he had left his plough.
the Neógal Kund, or Nadi, or used in building a The men rejoined that the plough was on his
temple to Balak Rapi on the same site. A coordshoulder and asked what was the matter with lim.
ingly the idol was stationed on the place pointed Jóga told them the whole story, but when he had
out. BALA LAl Part said that Joyd's eldest son finished telling it he became mad. Ganesha,.his
and his descendants would have the right to father, thereupon took some cotton-thread, and
worship the idol, while the out-door duties would went to a good fi, by name Kanthar Nath, who
be performed by Kanthar Jogi's descendants. recited some mantrae, blew on the thread, and
At that time Sasram Ohand Katoch was the Raja told him to put it round the neck of Jôga, who on
of this territory. wearing it was partially cured. Kanthar Nath then advised Gandsha to take the lad to BABA LAI First of all Raja Abhf Chand made a vow at Part, good MahAtma, who lived in the village of the temple of BA& Balak Rapf in order that he CanvArA Ganihar, which he did. LAI Part let might be blessed with a son. When be begot him depart, telling him that he would follow him. a child, the Bâbâ began to be resorted to more He also deolared that the gosata, whom the mad eagerly. lad had met, was BABA Balak Ropf, and that he
A Rajpat girl was once told by her brother's had been afflicted because he had betrayed the wife to graze cattle, and on her refusing, the B&bA. Gangeha went his way home, but Babe latter said: 'Yes, it is below your dignity to LAI Part reached Har before him. Thereefter
graze cattle because you are a Råņi, be sure both Baba Lal Pari and Jogi Kanthar Nath began
you will not be married to a Rája.' The girl in to search for BALA Balak Rapi.
distress at the remark untied the cattle and led At that time, on the site where Balak Rope's them to jungle. At that time BALA BAlak Rapi temple now stands, was a temple of Gugga, and bad again become manifest. The girl supplicated close to it was a rose-bush. BAbå LAI Part told him and said that she would not believe him to
Nim NAtb, or lord of the nim troo. The name of was, hostile to that of Gugglp Has the latter cult been Jogis will repay investigation.
displaced elsewhere by that of a Sidh? ? Cf. the story of Birag Lok, inr1.
This looks like bivs worship. Is Bálak Bupi to be . Does this mean that the cult of Balak Rapt in, or considered an incarnation of Siya P
