. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 113 son of Peshpout of Ellichpore, whea 3,000 years of the Dwarpa Yoag were unaccom-plished ; which, added to the 4,894 years of the present, or Kal Yoag,^ completes thefull number, 7,894. Eeloo Rajah was, as they record, aflSicted by a disease that resistedall efforts to cure or alleviate it. In quest of relie
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 113 son of Peshpout of Ellichpore, whea 3,000 years of the Dwarpa Yoag were unaccom-plished ; which, added to the 4,894 years of the present, or Kal Yoag,^ completes thefull number, 7,894. Eeloo Rajah was, as they record, aflSicted by a disease that resistedall efforts to cure or alleviate it. In quest of relief, the sufferer sought a then famouspurifying water, named Sewa Lye, or Sewallee, which had been curtailed by Vishnu, atthe instigation of Yemdhurhum, or Jum (the destroying spirit), from the dimensions ofsixty bowshots length and four in width, to the size of a cows hoof. In this waterEeloo dipped a cloth, and cleansed with it his face and hands—an operation which curedhim of the disease. He then built a khoond or cistern, and bathing therein his wholeperson, became purified; and looking upon the site of such a miraculous recovery asholy, he first constructed the temple-palace called Keylas, and then continued his piouswork to the place of Bisku
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