A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.99

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² [Ankāi-Tankāi (Unkye-Tunkye) is a hill-fort, now in the Yeola tāluka, Nāsik District, situated in 20° 11′ N. and 74° 27′ E., on twin hills rising 900 feet above the plain. On the south face of Tankāi are seven Jain caves, richly sculptured, but much defaced. (I.G. Bom., 1909, i. 473.) Ankāi is the name of one of the Mātris, or Mothers, originally the female goddesses of the non-Aryan or Dravidian races, which have been absorbed into neo-Brahmanic Hinduism. She is worshipped by the Bandhāris and other lower castes in Bombay as one of the cholera-goddesses. (Crooke, P.R. and F.L., &c., i. 111 ff. ; Edwardes, Byways of Bombay, 2nd ed., 71.)]