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Updated: May 12, 2025
The Burdwan translator renders this passage, "fifteen other gods belonging to western nations or Asuras." In connection with the names of these Mitra-gods, it is to be remembered that Mitra was the name of the principal god of the ancient Persians. "Markandeya continued, 'The fire called Bharata was bound by severe rules of asceticism.
I am deeply indebted to the Honourable Maharajadhiraj Bahadur of Burdwan who kindly placed at my disposal a collection of priceless and invaluable old views of Calcutta which are now quite unobtainable and for having had copies printed off from the negatives and for granting me permission to reproduce them in my book.
Thomason and some other gentlemen to Burdwan to examine the schools there, called on me on his return and gave me a most distressing account of the fall of houses, the loss of property, the violent rushing of waters, so that none, not even the best swimmers, dared to leave the place where they were. "This inundation was very destructive to the Mission house, or rather the Mission premises.
The Rajah of Burdwan, whose possessions were so vast that, travel as far as he would, he always slept under a roof of his own and within his own jurisdiction, died in such indigence that his son had to melt down the family plate and beg a loan from the government in order to discharge his father's funeral expenses. And our author gives other similar instances.
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