The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad . essing extra-ordinary medicinal properties. The latter is supposedto have grown in the quadrangle of the Temple oiCufa in Arabia and to have been brought by ^faqhwho gave it to Rai Saheb. It is a small, dried up,shrunken, soot colored thing, which when throwninto water, exhibits signs of vegetable life anddevelopes into a plant with distinctly visible roots,stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, flowers, petal
The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad . essing extra-ordinary medicinal properties. The latter is supposedto have grown in the quadrangle of the Temple oiCufa in Arabia and to have been brought by ^faqhwho gave it to Rai Saheb. It is a small, dried up,shrunken, soot colored thing, which when throwninto water, exhibits signs of vegetable life anddevelopes into a plant with distinctly visible roots,stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, flowers, petals ancfruits. The water, in which it has been dipped, isefficacious, when drunk, in expediting labour anceasy delivery. When withdrawn from the water,the plant dries up, shrinks and assumes its usual sizeand dark and dead appearance. The mandate from the Temple of Baidyanath iewritten in the Nagri character upon Bhoojpatra,bearing the seal of the shrine, the signature oiIsvariband Pujari and a representation of the Tem-ple of Baidyanath. The sandal colored bark, speckledwith small white spots and small chocolate coloredlines, has cracked in many places, but the writing NIZAMUT .,i*^^ r0mx ?7*5| -^W X :y^^4->v ?; ^
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