Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Volume 5 (Paperback)

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. 1880 Excerpt: ...looking at the hill it split into two. Then Dhoramnath came down, kindled his fire, built a monastery, and established the order of the Kanphatas. In the shrine is a red-smeared triangular conical stone in which Dhoramnath is said to have rested his head when performing penance. Outside of the shrine is the original ascetic's fire, dhuni, which is lighted three days in Bhddrapad (August-September), when the head, pir, of the monastery comes to worship and receives homage from the people of the neighbouring villages. At the foot of the hill, amongst the monastery buildings, is another temple to Dhoramnath on a raised platform facing the east, about seven feet square and with walls about seven feet high. Inside is a three feet high marble image of Dhoramnath, some small lings, and other brass and stone images, and a lamp always kept burning. In a large shed near is an ascetic's fire, dhuni, said to have been burning since the time of Dhoramnath. In August and October, at the Oohal Ashtami and Navrdtra festivals, rice and wheat flour sweetened with sugar are cooked and given to the people.2 Dina'ra has, about half a mile to the south, the ruins of a whitelimestone Jain temple, fifty feet long by eighteen wide, said to be the place where Sadevant and Savalinga, the hero and heroine of a Gujarati romance, used to study.8 Fatehgad, a prosperous village on the edge of the Ran in the north-east of Vagad with 3164 inhabitants, was, early in the present century, founded by, and called after, the famous minister Fateh Fatihgad. 1 Bom. Gov. Sel. CLII. (New Scries), 9, 10. The shrine faces the east and has no doors. Its measurements are 5J feet square and six high, with an entrance 44 feet high and 2 wide, - Bom. Gov. Scl. CLII. (New Series), 6, 9. 3 Bom. Gov Sel. ...