Note 168 — Chapter I · NATURE POWERS.

There are seven kundas, ponds, at Nirmal in the Thána District, forming a large lake. This lake is said to have been formed from the blood of the demon Vimalásur. At Sháhápur there is a holy spring of hot water under a Pipal tree. It is called Ganga.168 There are kundas, pools, of hot water in the Vaitarna river in the Thána District, in which people bathe on the 13th day of the dark half of Chaitra.169 There are also springs of hot water on the bank of the Surya river at Vajreshvari and at Koknere, in the Thána District.170 A handful of corn, if thrown into the hot water kundas at Tungar, is said to be boiled at once.171 It is held holy to bathe in the kundas of hot water that are situated in the rivers Tánsa and Bánganga in the Thána District.172 The water of a well which is drawn without touching the earth or without being placed upon the ground is given as medicine for indigestion. Similarly the water of seven tanks, or at least of one pond, in which lotuses grow is said to check the virulence of measles, small-pox, etc.173 A bath in a certain tank in the Mahim taluka is said to cure persons suffering from the itch, and water purified by repeating incantations over it is also said to be a good remedy for the same disease.174