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returned late in the evening, and found them dead in the field. Seeing that there was an image close by, they took it up, thinking it must have killed the boys. The image was then taken to the village, and Brahmans began to praise it and ask the deota the reason of his displeasure. Through a Brahman in & trance the spirit said that his name was Matld, and that if a temple were built for him in the village and his worship regularly performed, he would make the boys alive again. This was promised him, and the boys rose up saying " Rama, Rama."
The Kanets and Kolis of Shelota alone worship him. He holds a small jagir worth Rs. 7-4-6 a year from the State. His bhors are Banka and Bansherå. Bank& deo was originally a ghost in the forest, but was subdued by MAtld and made his servant like Bansherd. Bank& also lives at Shelag village. Måtld is given goats in sacrifice, but only ewes are given to Banshera. Banshere's spirit does not come to a Kanet, but speaks through a Koli.
38. Deota Heon of Pall.- At Pali, a village in pargana Chagdon, is a temple where Heon deotâ resides. He is affected by the Pali people, but his chief temple is at Heon in pargana, Rajana in Keonthal. He is worshipped not daily, but every fourth day, by a Brahman. Goats are sacrificed to him.
39. Deota Kharan of Sainja.- At Khoşû, near the junction of the ChagAonti Khad, with the Giri in Kumhårsain, is an extensive area of kidr (rich cultivated land), and here Raja Mahf ParkAsh of Sirm ûr14 held his Court, after he had married a daughter of the then Rand of Keonthal. This darbar was attended by all the hill Ranâs and Th&kurs, except the Raņa of Jubbal who refused to attend, so the Raja of Sirmûr sent a force under the Rand of Kumhêrsain against Jubbal, whose Rånå was taken captive and sent to Nahan, where, it is said, he died in prison.
Close to this kidr lies Sainja, a village in which Khasan deotd has a small temple. Some say that Raja Mohendra Prakash of Sirmur left the idol there, but others say that it was sent there by a Rand of Kumharsain, in order to ensure good crops to the kidr belonging to the State. It is also said that the image was sent from Kotishwar's temple at Koti. Khasan is a deota of agriculture and is worshipped by the Sainja Brahmans morning and evening. Goats are sacrificed to him.
40. Bhat of Karel.-There is no note on the legend of this deota.
41. Lonkra of Jdo.--At Jao stands & small temple with a wooden Lonkra on guard at its gate. This Lonkra is a servant of Karan deotd of Bashahar.
NOTES AND QUERIES. COPPER-PLATES.
Plate dated 8. 1481 (A.D. 1659); Grant by Solve Can anybody tell me where the Copper-Plates
Krishna. mentioned below can be seen ?
1 Plate found at Gokak (once in possesion of 1 Plate found near Bhandup about 1835.
Narayan Bhat.) 1 Plate found by Dr. Bird in 1839, dated 245.
1 Morvi plate, (lated S. 585. 1 Plate found in 1881 (which records & grant! Plate (once belonging to Virupaksh Dev of by Aparajita Silahara in 997).
Narayan Shankar Temple). I Plate found in Surat in 1881 A.D.
1 Plato (once belonging to Shiralo Shambhaling). 1 Plate found in Shimoga, with Mr. Rice's
3 Plates found at Dharwar, dated Inscription.
450-563,
"Kadambas" period. 1 Plate found in the Dhareshwar Temple in 1499. 1 Plate found at Gokarn, dated S. 1460-1527 A.D.
1 7 Plates, found at Halsi, “Kadambas" Period; . Plato dated 1500 (grant in the reign of Deva and some Copper Plates, dated 714. Raya Wodearu Trilochis).
B. F. GHARDA. 14. The Raja of Sirmûr reigned 1654-64 A.D. and carried his arms as far as Sialkbar, DOW in Bashahr, near the Tibetan border.
