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To the south of the same village on the shrine. There is a large gathering of people banks of a small lake are situated the at the place every bij day. temples of Hinglaj Mata and Kämdev Maha- Husen-pir was a native of Kadi anda dev. If there is a prospect of a drought in Saiyed by birth. In his youth, with his any year, the people of the village make father's permissio'n, he decided to remain an offering of lapsi to the former deity in unmarried, and took to travelling. In the order to bring about a fall of rain. About course of his wanderings he halted for a two miles from Dhhank there is a temple of week on the spot where his shrine stands at Vikani, in whose honour vows are observed present, and was so charmed with the place, for the cure of fractured bones of men and that he asked the owner of it, a Rabari, animals. Brāhmans are feasted at the Almora by name, for permission to reside temple of Hanuman at Timbo, four miles there always. The Pir was accompanied by away from Dhhank. At a distance of about two followers of the Mujāvar fakir sect. two khetarvas (fields) there is the shrine of The present Mujávar attendants at the shrine Ashabi-pir where Mussalmäns feast fakirs are descended from them ar
are descended from them, and stand in the and other co-religionists of theirs.
12th or the 15th degree of descent.2 Besides the above there are the temples of One vening (it was the 5th day of the Shankar Tapakeshwar Mahadev and Man- dark half of Bhadrapad) the Pir accompanied geshwar Mahadev near the hill mentioned by his two followers went to the Bhadar to in the paragraph above and the temples of offer the evening prayers. After the prayers Pipaleshwar Mahadev and Ramchandraji, to were over, he told his followers that a flood the south of Dhhank. There are also temples was soon coming in the river, and asked both erected in honour of suttees known as of them to leave him and return with their Nomalmätä, Hulmätä, etc, 1
horses. One of them left the place as directThe river Vinu meets the Bhādar, at a ed: but the other placed his head on the place two miles to the east of Ganod, and Pir's lap and was drowned along with his the Moja also joins the Bhädar a little further master in the flood, which came down as if to the east. Hence the spot is called Traveni in obedience to the Pir's words. Before dy(a confluence of three rivers ) and is re- ing the Pir granted a boon to the Mujāvars garded as holy. The beautiful temple of that their line of descent would never fail for Baraneshwar Mahadev is situated here. Vows want of their heirs, and that their leirs for feasting a certain number of Brahmans, would always be his attendants. are observed in honour of this deity.
The same night the Pir informed the The celebrated shrine of Husen-pir is Khojas of Keshod and Kutiana that his corpse situated in the vicinity of Ganod, and is and that of his Vujävar follower lay much revered by the Khoja community, who unburied at a particular spot. The Khojas, hold a fair there on every 110-sud-bij, i.e. accompanied by the Rabari Almors, visited the second day of the bright half of Ashrin. the place in the morning and made ready to The fair lasts for seven or eight days, when carry the corpses to Junagadh, They found Khojas from Bombay and even Zanzibar to their astonishment that the corpses could visit the place. A large building, the Khoja- not be removed. Almora then recollected the khana, is set apart to the west of the shrine request of the Pir, and told the Khojas of for the sabha ( or meeting ). The largest his favourite place. The corpses were then fair was held in samvat 1940 (1884 A.D.), carried to their present place of rest, and all when H. H, the Agashah paid a visit to the efforts of the Khojas, to proceed further
1 The Schoolmaster of Dhhank.
2 The Schoolmaster of Gacod.
