Ras-mala. Hindu Annals of Western India with Particular Reference to Gujarat

Nearly the whole of the south-west portion of Goozerat a tract of country sixty miles deep extending from the Runn of Kutch to the banks of the Nerbudda along the frontier of the peninsula and the northern and eastern shores of the Gulf of Cambay is an open and alluvial plain ; much of this fertile tract and especially that part of it which lies between the Sabhermutee and the Myhee is cover [...] In this plain a few miles to the north of Chumardee lie the modern town of Wulleh (now a chieftainship of the Rajpoot Gobi's) and the remains of the ancient City of Wullubheepoor and further on as if to continue the historical interest of the scene a tall minaret shows the town of Loleeyanah where for many years the lieutenants of the Mohummedan emperors collected the revenues of the province [...] The holy mountain of Shutroonjye sacred to Adeenath ' the first of the twenty-four hierophants of the Jains rises to the height of Corresponding with the four yoogs or ages of the Hindbos are the six Arils of the J4ins. [...] Well done " said they " to him who escapes the sight of " the destruction of his country or the extinction of his race or the " rape of his wife or the calamity of his friends." The heretics thus defeated having been expelled the country at the order of the King and the Jain teachers recalled in consequence of Mull's having dfeated the Boudhists the learned men with the Sovereign's per [...] The pr" ductions of the sun the conditions of the temperature the manners " and the physical character of the inhabitants are the same as in the " country of Malwa.