Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c15.60

c15.60

me that about 40 years since, when the Island called Gonga Sagur was inhabited, the Raja of the Island gathered yearly rent out of it to the amount of 2 lacks of rupees." In 1705, Luillier spoke of the temple at 'Sagore' and of two famous ascetics residing there, while in 1727 Hamilton says, ".....among the Pagans, the Island Sagor is accounted holy, and great number of Jougies (asectics) go yearly thither in the months of November and December to worship and wash in salt water, though many of them fall sacrifices to the hungry tigers." The account o' Hedges suggests that the Island was once severe'y hit by a cyclone about the middle of the seventeenth century.