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Title: Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Tod, James, 1782-1835 Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Rajasthan (India) -- History
Publisher: London, New York : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f the faithful wives who becameSatis for the salvation of their lords. On some of these altarswere three and four putlis, or images, denoting the number ofdevotees. It would require a months halt and a company ofpioneers to turn over these ruins, and then we might not berewarded for our pains. We have therefore set to work to clear apath, that we may emerge from these wilds. Nauli, December 5 ; twelve miles.—The road runs through onecontinued forest, which would have been utterly impassable butfor the hatchet. Half-way is the boundary between Bhainsrorand Bhanpura, also an ancient appanage of Mewar, but nowbelonging to Holkar. Nauli is a comfortable village, ha\dng theremains of a fort to the westward. In the evening I went to visit Takaji-ka-kund, or fountain of the snake-king. It is about two miles east of Nauli ; the road, through a jungle, over the flat higliland or Patar, presents no indication of the object of research, until you suddenly find your- ^ (Pandanus odoratissimus.)
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NAULI : BHANPURA 1769 self on the brink of a precipice nearly two hundred feet in depth,crowded with noble trees, on which the knotted kur was againconspicuous. The descent to this glen was over masses of rock ;and about half-way down, on a small platform, are two shrines ;one containing the statue of Takshak, the snake-king ; the otherof Dhanvantari, the physician, who was produced at the churn-ing of the ocean. The kund, or fountain, at the southern extremityof the abyss, is about two hundred yards in circumference, andtervaQA aihah, or unfathomable, according to my guide, and if wemay judge from its dark sea-green lustre, it must be of considerabledepth. It is filled by a cascade of full one hundred feet per-pendicular height, under which is a stone seat, sacred to the geniusof the spot. At the west side issues a rivulet, caUed the Takhaili,or serpentine, which, after pursuing a winding course for manymiles, some hundred feet below the surface of the Patar, washesthe eastern face o

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