BA RODA
I?2
CITY.
But most notable of all are the Hindu temples which crowd this Hard by the stone bridges are two temples to Siva while numerous lesser shrines perpetuate divine honours rendered to those who have ruled the State the Gaekwars Govind Rao and Anand Rao, the Ram's Ghenabai, and the wife of the late Gaekwar Malhar Rao. In them may be seen either their images in stone life-size, or at least their feet as far as the ankle. These are the benefactors who instituted religious city.
—
or continued the khichadi, or practice of giving food daily to thousands
of male and
female Brahmans of the Deccan. This extravagant was extended by Khandi Rao to the Musalman poor. The chief State temples are those of Vithal Mandir, which has the largest allowances Swami Narayan’s Mandir, a great edifice ; the temple of Khandoba, the tutelary god of the Gaekwar’s family ; that of Becharaji and Bhi'mnith, where Brahmans undergo penance for the spiritual welfare of the Gaekwars and the confusion of their enemies, liberality
or daily read
the Saptashati prayers to
Mahi
Kali
Lakshman Bawa’s
Sidhnath, Kalika, and Bolai, and
the temples of
Ram
The
Mandir.
such as that of Narsaijk, Gobardhan Baldewaji, the Ganpati Mandir, and the temple of Kashi
Guzeratis have their temples, Nathji,
Visheshwar.
The
city
proper within the walls
is
divided into
1
7 streets or quarters,
which extend farthest towards the west, that is, in the direction of the river and the cantonment. Here are the Modi Khana or Gaekwar’s commissariat
who
Minister
Nawab
of
the quarters
named
after Syaji
after Raoji Apajf, the
called in the English, in which the
Baroda, a descendant of Mir
Mazumdar and
Kamal-ud-din,
live
the after
Gangadhar Shastri, whose murder led to the rupture between the English and the last Peshwa after Anand Rao; and after Babji, the
brother of Raoji Apaji.
The
northern suburbs are composed of rz quarters or
streets,
the
Eateh Singh, contains the house of Bhau Sindhia, the Minister of the late Khandi Rao, the stables, the carriagehouses, and the Hathi Khana of the Gaekwar, as well as one of the chief of which,
named
after
two schools of athletes. The eastern suburb consists of only 5 streets or quarters, and comprises the arena, the menageries, and Anand Rao’s old
palace.
quarters,
The
southern suburbs are divided into ii streets or
one of which, the
Farnavis, the
first
officer in
great banker Gopal
Rao
Muhammad
Wadi,
the State by rank,
Mairal
is
inhabited by the
and by the
there are also quarters
heir of the
named
after
Khandoba’s temple, and the Musalman fortification called the Monkey’s Tower. There is a good library in the city of Baroda, near the public offices, with a branch in the middle of the city. The Census of 1881 gives Baroda city a population of ior,8i8, and Baroda cantonment a population of 4694 persons; total, 106,512.
