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A Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh (H to M)

1878

The stranger ascending one of the hills behind the town will see to the north as far as the eye can reach nothing but a sea of tree-tops waving densely as the corn in the harvest field ; this is the vanguard of the great forest of the Himalayan Tarsi. [...] Tradition reports that the Emperor Aurangzeb ordered the stone to be pulled up but that the effort of many elephants was of no avail and when the emperor approached the spot to discover the obstacle flames burst forth from the ground and the dismayed monarch retreating made a grant to the shrine of the offended deity. [...] The population consists of almost all classes of Hindus and Muhammadans ; the former belong for the most part to the Shaivi and the latter to the Sunni sects. [...] But one fair is held ; in the village of Robi on the bank of the Gumti in honour of Auseneswar Mahadeo; it takes place every Monday but the most noted occasion is on the day of Shiuratri in the month of Phigun (February-March) when the gathering of people amounts to 10 000. [...] In the inner recess of the valley the waters are still and of a deep-blue but where the surrounding eminences widen out the wind moves the surface into sheets of grey rippling wavelets and often in the centre of the lake sudden gusts drive the water before it in green billows and bursts of white foam.
government politics public policy
Pages
531
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Frontmatter
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A Gazetteer of The Province of Oudh
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