PLATE LVIL
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A musical instrument beaten -with Qü'a |itiGk, feequBHtl)F used at the
ceremony pf throwing their gods and goddesses into the water, at frjap
feast ofDwgJàh, or Calée. Madam IXurgah is the goddess who has
deified the G'anggs;!,ahdis -held in great veneration. In October every
year they celebrate her-festival ; it lasts several evenings!,'on three, qf
which-sucaessively,Kthe natives visit eachiQtherj and adore th^iiv
IMfl'', whifeh i$ finely ornamented with tinsel, Sco. fiphj alsP.hflpr
hrate this festival1 f e a splendid manner af their own! 'Muséfeÿ-: and
introduce a'pantomime onf'the'OGcasion,’ to fhp-ri;ididul®fe'4rkks of
which, the honest Indians are particularly partial, * On the- third
evening,howe vet, their adoration ischarigedintdourSe^andexecratiops :
they take their idol oifetheir-shoulders, load it with' every igtfopMHjft
and carrying it to the hanks of the Ganges, throw it into the river.
