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204,
Story of an Emigrant.
are covered with colored metal, and the interior is divided
into three rooms, in each of which is a stone image
representing the creative
principle. The
worshipers throw rice and flowers
at these images, and
officiating Brahmins
continually pour over them
water from the Ganges.
Within a separate
inclos-ure is a sacred well called
"Gvan-Bapi," or the well
of knowledge, into which
the rice and the flowers
from the images are
washed by a continual
stream of water. Out of
this well rises an
intolerable stench from the
putrefying mass which
poisons the air in and around
the temple, for it is not permitted to take these offerings
out of the well. Around the well is a colonnade of small
beautiful pillars, back of which, on the east side, is a
seven-foot-high stone statue of a bull consecrated to the god of
Mahadeva.
Another temple is divided into stalls which contain
well-fed sacred animals, such as bulls, cows, goats and birds, all
of which are objects of worship of the faithful. This temple
was kept morcclcan than the former, but the bellowingof the
animals and the jostling and crowding of the worshipers
made the visit to those deities intolerable.
One of the finest temples in Benares is called "Durga
Kund, and is devoted to the goddess Durga. It is a large
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DYING BRAHMIN.
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