They have been greatly benefited by the late rains, and in no case injured.

The ground all the way covered with white hoar frost, and the dews heavy in a cloudless sky.

Finer weather I have never known in any quarter of the world.
This place is held sacred from a tradition, that Ram, after his expedition against Cylone, came here to bathe in a small tank near our present camp, in order to wash away the sin of having killed a _Brahmin_ in the person of Rawun, the monster king of that island, who had taken away his wife, Seeta.

Till he had done so, he could not venture to revisit his capital, Ajoodheea.

There are many legends regarding the origin of the sanctity of this and the many other places around, which pilgrims must visit to complete the _pykurma_, or holy circuit.