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⁷ Rájápur is also made interesting by two well-known objects of Hindu pilgrimage, a temple over an intermittent spring, popularly called Ganga, which rises at the end of the cold weather and lasts for two or three weeks, and the temple of Dhopeshvar (properly Dhutápápeshvar ‘the cleanser from sin’) situated in a romantic ravine, to which a very pleasant paved road has been made within the last few years. The rise of Ganga is looked for with anxiety by the inhabitants, as its non-appearance is considered a bad omen.