Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.256

v3.c43.t1.256

Jāsma,² 24th; distance fourteen miles, but not above twelve direct.—This in past times was a township of celebrity, and in the heart of the finest soil in India, with water at hand; but it had not a single habitation when we entered the country; now, it has eighty families. Our way for fourteen miles was through one wide waste of untrodden plain; the Banas continued our companion half-way, when she departed for Galund to our right. Saw many inscriptions, of which we shall give an account hereafter. Passed the copper-mines of Dariba;³ but they are filled with water, and the miners are all dead.