One of the officers told me that, a short time since, a very rich Hindoo made a pilgrimage here, and offered the commandant of the fortress 20,000 rupees (2,000 pounds) to allow him to make his devotions in this temple.

The commandant could not permit it.
This fortress also has its tradition:--"When the Sultan Akbar commenced building it, every wall immediately fell in.

An oracle said that he would not succeed in its erection before a man voluntarily offered himself as a sacrifice.

Such an one presented himself, and made only one condition, that the fortress and town should bear his name.

The man was called Brog, and the town is, even at this time, more frequently called Brog by the Hindoos than Allahabad." In memory of the heroic man, a temple was erected near the fortress, under ground, where he is interred.