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it were 70 cells for monks and pilgrims. Busy miners for the oil are now living; round this divine flame, and have found it everywhere. The fire _ __ god has often shown himself as a column of flame 300 feet high, and E flows in a viscous stream, with noxious fumes, amid darkne lighted ___ by the lurid flame. Such a stream ancient races imagined in Hell. | The old fire altar, at the beginning of the last century, was a platform 16 feet square, with three steps each a foot high leading up. At each angle was a pillar of grey stone 16 feet high, and 7 feet acro at the base, to support a simple sloping roof. Originally the _ sbrine was hypwethral (compare Rivers of Life, ii, p. 268, figs. 253, plates xiii and xvi). In the centre the fire used to burn in a tube; ____ but the flow stopped, and a new mouth to the well was sunk close by. This fire was not kept always alight; but at special festivals a bell was rung, mystic spells muttered, rice and barley scattered round, and ___ the devotees were expected to give gifts, when the flame was lighted by this last of Guebres or fire worshipers.: Bala. Balin. Sanskrit “vigour.” The resultant of the seven Dhatus, or constituent elements of the body (Dr Hoernle, Bengal Ri, Asiatic Journal, x, 1, 1891, p. 177). Balin is a “ bull” or “ boar,” Bala. Sanskrit. “A boy,” “one ignorant” or “innocent,” a “colt,” or any young animal. Bali was a monkey, and a son of Indra., Bala-ram a. The Hindu Héraklés (called also Bala-bhadra “ the holy strong one,” and Bala-deva “the strong god”): he was the half brother of Krishna, They were really the offspring of the same two parents Vasudeva and Devaki; but for safety he was transferred to the womb of Rohini, the other wife of Vasudeva. He is a solar dem i-god, and a shepherd.