7/13 A small principality west of Riwa, and 110 miles north-west of Jubbulpore. It is also known as Nagaudh, or Nagod. Compare the account of the marriage of the _tulasi_ shrub (_Ocymum sanctum_) with the salagram stone, or fossil ammonite, in Chapter 19, _post_. There is a sublime passage in the Psalms of David, where the lightning is said to be the arrows of God. Psalm lxxvii: 17, 'The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. |