Storia do Mogor 100.3

100.3

I observed this very specially when, during my stay, one of my friends named Aquim Momena (Hakim Mumin), physician to Bahadur Khan, gave me a dinner upon the said fortification. As it was the first time [59] I saw it, I showed my admiration of this work of Nature. For many gave me particular information, and told me that the Hindus worship this river Tirth, their story being that one of their gods opened with an arrow the spring from which the said river rises. Every five years multitudes of Hindus assemble and wash their bodies in the said stream. This yields a good revenue to the Mogul king, for every person who bathes in the river pays six and a quarter rupees. Such is the multitude of frequenters that in the crowding many are stifled. Nor on this account do the relations of the smothered persons make the usual lamentations. On the contrary, they boast that their relations died in a state of grace and holiness, all of which is included in the word Tirth.