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The province of Malwa, which is bordered by the Nerbudda on the
south, Gujarat on the west, Rajputana on the north, and Allahabad on
the east, is said never to have been visited by a famine; and this
exemption from so great a calamity must arise chiefly from its being
so well studded with hills and groves. The natives have a couplet,
which, like all good couplets on rural subjects, is attributed to
Sahadeo, one of the five demigod brothers of the Mahabharata, to this
effect: 'If it does not thunder on such a night, you, father, must go
to Malwa, and I to Gujarat', meaning, 'The rains will fail us here,
and we must go to those quarters where they never fail'[14]
Notes:
1. The Archaeological Survey is engaged in unceasing battle with the
pipal seedlings.
2. This proposition is too general.
3. The Hiliya, or Haliya, Pass is near the town of the same name in
the Mirzapur district, thirty-one miles south-west of Mirzapur. A
bilingual inscription, in English and Hindi, on a large slab on the
bank of the river, records the capture of the fort of Bhopari in 1811
by the 21st Regiment Native Infantry.
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