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It is called the lingum. The nature of this is so utterly abominable, that I cannot tell you a word about it. Married women wear an ornament peculiar to themselves. It is called the tahly. It is a piece of gold, on which is engraven the image of some one of their gods. This is fastened around the neck by a short yellow string, containing one hundred and eight threads of great fineness.
Leaving this antique specimen of a nobleman's town house, we passed through a maze of narrow streets; and bobbing under low archways at the imminent peril of fracturing our skulls, we arrived at the Bisheshwan Temple, which was crowded with Hindoos worshipping the Lingum, representations of which met the eye in every direction.
The Jata-dhari Gusa,in is a sect of fanatic Hindu mendicants, who let their hair grow and matted, and go almost naked. Mahadev is a Hindu idol; the emblem of the creative power, and generally and naturally represented by the Lingum. Shevrat is a Hindu festival, which corresponds nearly with the Mahometan shabi barat.
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