A History of the Mahrattas v2.c35.42

v2.c35.42

³ [Raghunāth Rāo, during his sojourn in Bombay, ‘fixed his residence on Malabar Hill, where he built a lofty, habitable tower, since removed. He was in the habit occasionally of passing through the cleft (i.e. the Yoni at Malabar Point); and being a Brahman of considerable piety, was doubtless much benefited by such regeneration.’ (Moor, Hindu Pantheon (1810), p. 397.) Possibly Raghunāth Rāo sought, by passing through the sacred orifice, to cleanse himself from the stain of implication in the murder of the Pēshwā Narāyan Rāo. The ruins of the tower in which he resided are mentioned by Maria Graham in her Journal of a Residence in India (1811).]