Note 462 — Chapter I

The Lasundra kund near Lasundra in the Kaira District462 and the Tulsi-shyāma kund on Mount Girnār463 contain hot waters. There is also a hot kund called Devki-unai, about thirty miles to the south of Surat.462 There the waters remain hot throughout the whole of the year, except on the fifteenth day of the bright half of Chaitra. On this day, the waters cool, and people can bathe in the kund. Many pilgrims visit the place on this occasion, to offer money, cocoanuts, and red lac to the unai mātā, whose temple stands near the kund. It is said that King Rāma built this kund while performing a local sacrifice, and brought water up from the pātāl (nether regions) by shooting an arrow into the earth.464