This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...for sacred basil. It is of considerable extent, and the walks are eight feet wide or more, and are cut to some four or five feet below the level of the plots which are covered by a dense growth of trees as well as of tulasi plants. This Padmanath Kumbhar is now looked upon as an incarnation of Vishnu,1 and has many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...for sacred basil. It is of considerable extent, and the walks are eight feet wide or more, and are cut to some four or five feet below the level of the plots which are covered by a dense growth of trees as well as of tulasi plants. This Padmanath Kumbhar is now looked upon as an incarnation of Vishnu,1 and has many followers, who worship him under the symbo of the tulasi plant. The potters still ply their trade at this place. 1 Padmanabha is a name of Vishnu, but in an old inscription at Gwalior he is also called Padmauatha; see below, pp. 63, 64. CHAPTER VI. SIDDHAPUE. Plates VI, XXXVII-XLVI. THE town of Siddhapur lies seventeen miles farther up the Sarasvati river than Anahilavada-pattana, being slightly to the north of east from it, and sixty-four miles north of Ahmadabad. It is prettily situated on a rising ground on the west or north-west bank of the river which, after a slight turn to the north-west here, flows south past the town, and then resumes its southwesterly course through the sandy plain of northern Gujarat.1 The Sarasvati river, of which the name was perhaps transplanted from" northern India," is sacred to the goddess of eloquence and wisdom; and wife of Brahma3; and at Siddhapura, where the stream is supposed to turn to the eastwards (as much as southwards) or towards the rising sun, it is considered particularly holy. As the pitfiyajna or pitrimedha--the obsequial offerings to the paternal Manes must be made at Gaya, or at Prayaga, so the corresponding offerings to the maternal ancestors have to be performed at Siddhapur. This makes it, to a large extent, a Brahman town; and hence on the level banks of the stream to the south-east is a striking foreground of convents used by Saiva devotees and Gujarati Brahmans--the Tirthadhikari...
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